As a consultant general surgeon in Sri Lanka, always found time to pursue hobbies of wildlife and painting. As a spin off started growing a arboretum of trees native and endemic to Sri Lanka. This has…
Ethylene Oxide sterilization has been use for recycling some consumable surgical items in Sri Lanka as well as rest of South Asia. The Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka has directed that herewith this…
New research by the London School of Economics (LSE) shows that regular brisk walking is the best exercise for keeping weight down. The research compared 30min of high impact walking with the same…
CSH and the Ecosystems Knowledge Network are holding a workshop on the 25th November in partnership with South Pennines LNP. The workshop aims to bring about effective working relationships between…
Yesterday at the Royal College of Nursing in central London, a group of clinicians, commissioners and other interested parties gathered for the launch of the new joint commissioning panel for mental…
My alarm buzzed at 03:40am, bleary eyed I stretched across to switch it off assuming I had made an alarm-setting mistake… then it dawned on me that it wasn’t a mistake, and that I had signed up to…
Four psychiatrists including Royal College of Psychiatrists Registrar, Dr Adrian James are showing their commitment to sustainability in mental health by cycling 65 miles from Oxford to London.
Dr…
The third of the Priority Learning Outcomes for Sustainable Healthcare requires that medical students:
Discuss how the duty of a doctor to protect and promote health is shaped by the dependence of…
It was a great pleasure for me to join the COT conference in Brighton this year at the invitation of Ben Whittaker. Not only did I get a chance to breathe puresea air and experience the delights of…
The WHO HEAT (health economic assessment tool for walking & cycling)in action! BBC report on how Dutch cycling culture is benefiting health:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34498871