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Can a doctor protest and still be a doctor?

Created on
3 May 2024
by
Marty Climenhaga
Doctors Association UK is concerned about whether doctors should lose their licence to practice if they protest about climate change. Please fill in the survey if you…
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Sustainable Placements: Role Emerging and Leadership Placements for Students

Created on
18 Apr 2024
by
Jacqueline Gordon
Greener AHP week has interesting events for educators and students including the great work done on leadership placements to encourage sustainability networks by Helen McAlinney in Yorkshire - come…
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Tree Planting and Conservation within Occupational Therapy

Created on
28 Mar 2024
by
Harriet White
Technical instructor in the Occupational Therapy Department, Alex Watkins, spoke to me about some projects he's been leading at Langdon Hospital. Alex initially led projects in the woodworking…
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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

Created on
25 Mar 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Usage of single-use endoscope valves

Created on
15 Mar 2024
by
Michael Perrot
What is your opinion on the use of disposable endoscope valves? We cannot recognise any advantage here - apart from the 'saved' reprocessing. Are there any scientific studies on this? Of course, the…
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Green Endoscopy Advice

Created on
22 Feb 2024
by
Louisa Thomson
I am an Improvement Practitioner working at the RUH, Bath. Today, we held our relaunch of the Green Endoscopy Group. Lots of ideas, but we are focussing on some 'quick' wins to be begin with and would…
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Getting involved in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

Created on
29 Jan 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch took place this weekend, with over 5 million birds counted so far.There’s still time to get involved with service users or colleagues and tell the RSPB what birds you see…
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Sustainability in Hand Therapy

Created on
10 Dec 2023
by
Pete Vesey
As my 18 month contract with RCOT drew to a close I was pleased to be able to represent RCOT at the British Association of Hand Therapist's annual conference on 6-7th Oct 2023. I was able to promote…
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It's that time of the year again - have you heard of the reverse advent calendar?

Created on
28 Nov 2023
by
Ka Yan Hess
Hello all Has anyone started thinking about Christmas already? It is hard to believe 2023 has flown by so quickly and we are heading for December in a few days. In the spirit of the upcoming…
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Opportunity for Practice Staff to take part in a brief 5-minute online survey about how their practice is (or isn’t) taking actions towards a Net Zero NHS.

Created on
15 Nov 2023
by
Raquel Nunes
Opportunity for Practice Staff in Coventry and Warwickshire ICB, Birmingham and Solihull ICB, and South Yorkshire ICB to take part in a brief 5-minute online survey about how their practice is…