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Students & young healthcare professionals: the healthcare of the future needs you!

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19 Jun 2013
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Isobel Braithwaite
CleanMed Europe conference: Pathways to Sustainable Healthcare Oxford, September 17th- 19th 2013 A message from Rachel Stanfcliffe, director of the CSH: We would like to invite students and trainee…
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Case Studies Pour in for CleanMed Europe 2013

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12 Jun 2013
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
We have received a fantastic number of case studies from the UK, Europe and beyond for presentation at the conference on Pathways to Sustainable Healthcare coming up in September. We will post more…
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Preparing Medical Students to lead a Sustainable Healthcare System

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11 Jun 2013
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Stefi Barna
Academic and professional health bodies have expressed concern that climate change, in its direct and indirect effects, will pose the greatest health risk of the 21st century. Yet education about the…
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Chemical exposures during pregnancy - what to advise?

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6 Jun 2013
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Frances Mortimer
Has anyone else had a chance to read the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' scientific impact paper on chemical exposures during pregnancy…
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THINK EAT SAVE - World Environment Day

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5 Jun 2013
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Sarah Walpole
http://www.unep.org/wed/sustainableconsumption/ Good website with quite a few of the facts about global (under)nutrion and environment
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Physical activity - a necessary element in a healthy, sustainable lifestyle

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3 Jun 2013
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Sarah Walpole
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/6/13-120790/en/index.html "Since health-based models have failed to promote physical activity to the extent necessary, we must shift the argument from the…
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NICE guidance on brief advice for physical activity

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3 Jun 2013
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Frances Mortimer
Generally it seems like a good thing when NICE produces clinical guidance for evidence-based lifestyle interventions - helping to make them more officially part of good clinical care. So it's good to…
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EU legislation a barrier to sustainable actions?

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29 May 2013
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Frances Mortimer
We are in contact with a Member of the European Parliament who is willing to challenge outdated EU legislation which is proving a barrier to sustainability in kidney care - as long as there is a clear…
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BMJ editorial - Inhaled drugs and global warming: time to shift to dry powder inhalers

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29 May 2013
by
Frances Mortimer
Asatmospheric carbon dioxide levels top 400 parts per million,an editorial in this week's BMJ from Nick Hopkinson, Toby Hillman and Frances Mortimer draws attention to the impact of respiratory…
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Energy for change

Created on
29 May 2013
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In order to meet the Climate Change Act’s targets we need to transform clinical services which will then enable greater levels of sustainability. There is a need for clinical leaders to be part of the…