Mind has launched a new Wellbeing Index help employers to promote and support positive mental health among their staff.
The index aims to help organisations find out where they are doing well and…
The Global Health curriculum group has developed capabilities for all postgraduate doctors. These are to equip doctors with knowledge and skills ready for the globalised world that we live in.…
A group of us from the SHE network are presenting a sympoisum on sustainable healthcare at the AMEE conference in Barcelona this year (Sarah mentioned this in a recent post). The symposium will be…
Hello all!
My name is Stanley Blue. I am a social scientist from Lancaster University working at the DEMAND centre (www.demand.ac.uk) which studies the dynamics of energy, mobility and demand. I…
I’m Kay Fretwell - a student currently on placement with the Department for Sustainability at NUS. I’m putting together an A-Z of Sustainability in the Curriculum which will highlight 26 case studies,…
A paper published in the BDJ, exploring knowledge and attitudes to sustainability amongst the dental team offers an interesting read and insight into staff behaviour with regards to "reduce, reuse and…
Rational use of investigations in medicine... NICE publishes new guidance which suggests
- tests from primary care should be communicated to secondary/tertiary centres to avoid unnecessary repeats,…
The world may be getting smaller, but it’s not getting simpler. In the lead up to the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) annual conference 2016, we are working to prepare sessions fit…
This is the second of a series of five-yearly assessments of climate change risks and opportunities produced by the Committee on Climate Change for the UK as a whole and also separately for the…
This new report has found that if the U.S. healthcare sector were ranked as a nation, it would be the world's 13th-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, more than all of the UK!!! The study estimates…