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BBC news feature on single use plastic in dentistry

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2 Sep 2019
by
Layla Taleb
Great publicity for sustainable dentistry on the BBC... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49528007/sheffield-professor-urges-dentists-to-ditch-single-use-plastic A…
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*Dental Susnet on Social Media*

Created on
18 Jul 2019
by
Layla Taleb
Hi All! You can now find Dental Susneton Twitter and Facebook! https://mobile.twitter.com/DentalSusnet https://m.facebook.com/dentalsusnet/ We are also interested in hearing from…
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Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

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28 Jun 2019
by
Stefi Barna
"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of…
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Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

Created on
9 Jun 2019
by
Admin *
As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocating insufficient funding due to council spending cuts.…
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World environment day

Created on
4 Jun 2019
by
Nicola Hawkey
Hi folks #WorldEnvironmentDay Weds 5 June is World Environment Day and we have a few social media posts planned around dental sustainability and we will be tweeting about the CSH toolkit, the…
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New British Dental Journal 'Sustainable Dentistry' section online

Created on
15 May 2019
by
Sara Harford
Great news for Sustainable Dentistry! As part of the new British Dental Journal (BDJ) website they havecreated a section which brings together all of the recently publishedevidence-based papers on…
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Climate advocacy networking

Created on
2 May 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…
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Acid concentrate dilution

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29 Nov 2018
by
Fraser Gilmour
From the sustainability session discussions at the recent ART conference it was identified that there are still a significant number of UK trusts using 1:34 dilution acidinstead of the stronger and…
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New Colgate TerraCycle Oral Care Product Recycling Programme

Created on
21 Nov 2018
by
Sara Harford
Fantastic news in support of environmentally sustainable dental care! Worldwide consumer oral hygiene product company Colgate have partnered up with TerraCycle to launch a new free programme in the UK…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

Created on
15 Nov 2018
by
James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…