This morning saw the start of the 41st COT Annual Conference, at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. The conference used to bea three day event but is now a jam-packed two days!
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The Ecosystems Knowledge Network ran a thought-provoking one-day training course covering the design and implementation of green-prescribing. The course trainer was Exeter University based Dr Dan…
I recently attended a conference at the King’s Fund in London entitled ‘Social prescribing; from rhetoric to reality’. It was a great day with lots of interesting speakers sharing their views and…
The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education will advance global health security and educate professionals on the effects of climate change.
A new consortium, US based, and invites global…
GP Sustainability scholar, Dr Claudia Wegner, is working on a project to improve the wellbeing of the elderly population in Cheddar. The initiative provides time and space for younger and older people…
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness is the main partner in the W.H.O."VISION 2020; Right to Sight" global initiative to prevent avoidable blindness by 2020. The IAPB board…
The Leeds Collective including Andy Cassels-Brown, Simon Dewsbery, Jen Green, Mitch Menage and Peter Galloway from St James's University Hospital won this year's sustainability prize for their work on…
In April 2017 Dr Robin Chisman, Sustainability Fellow at the Severn Deanery, organised a Sustainability Day for FY2 trainees. This was a great opportunity for those who attended to hear about the…
This is the second year of the sustainable ophthalmology prize at the Annual Congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Seventy-three clinical teams entered of whom 15 have been…
In Mental Health Awareness Week, we are pleased to be able to publish the report from last year's conference, "Transforming Mental Health and Dementia Provision with the Natural Environment".
This…