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Australian colleagues launch Green Dialysis website

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10 Apr 2013
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Frances Mortimer
The strap line for the new Green Dialysis website is "eco-dialysis… a more thoughtful future". http://greendialysis.org/ documents the eco-journey of the Barwon Health Renal Service, which began…
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Presentations from Sustainability and Health symposium - University of Brighton

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4 Apr 2013
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Heather Baid
The Sustainability Group from the University of Brighton School of Nursing and Midwifery hosted a symposium during the University's green week (March 2013).Click here for our website which has the…
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Plans underway for a Sustainable Respiratory Inhalers Programme

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4 Apr 2013
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Frances Mortimer
The continued use of metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) in respiratory care will have a potentially serious effect on global warming if production is not controlled, largely because these inhalers use…
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Last chance to contribute to a medical curriculum for sustainable healthcare!

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3 Apr 2013
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Frances Mortimer
The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) Network is convening a national consultation on priority learning outcomes (PLOs) for sustainability in medical education, which has been prompted by the…
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New additions to our NHS Forest for NHS Sustainability day

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27 Mar 2013
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Libby Critchley
Hi All NHS Forest 2 Trees at 2 pm We are all set for NHS Sustainability day tomorrow the holes have been dug posts in place and our trees have been donated and loving preped by a local Nursery…
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Junior Doctor Sustainability Fellow

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27 Mar 2013
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Amy Alsop
My name is Amy and I am the junior doctor ‘Sustainability Fellow’ for the Severn Deanery. It is a new post this year so I have a blank slate to work with. It is a post I have taken on in addition to…
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Public Health Registrar Sustainable Development Network

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27 Mar 2013
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Ruchi Baxi
The Public Health Registrar Sustainable Development Network is comprised of a group of Public Health Registrars across the UK. We hope you read our recently launched report. The foundations of the…
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NHS Sustainability Day - Spring Switch off Day and Eco-Rhyme Competition

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22 Mar 2013
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Manoj Chohan
We are celebrating Sustainability Dayby promoting 2 green initiatives. 1) The Day itself is declared as Spring Switch Off - encouraging patients, staff and visitors to switch off unwanted…
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Ed Davey, The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, visits CSH

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18 Mar 2013
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Rachel Stancliffe
When we asked whom Ed worked with in the Department of Health his honest reply was that Health was not a department that he frequently links with because there are so many others. The policy of the…
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NHS Sustainabilty Day 2013

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15 Mar 2013
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Ben Whittaker
For thoseof us working in the NHS,NHS Sustainability Dayis fast approaching on March 28th. It's agreat chance to raise awareness of sustainabilty issues and it would begood to hear any plans you…