Daniel Maughan, the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Sustainability Fellowlooks at the evidence of how climate change is impacting on mental healthin the latest BMJ Blog coordinated by the Centre for…
The NHS Forest has been shortlisted for an HSJ award in the "Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability Category". With over 1300 entries this year we are very pleased to have got through the…
This year has been an interesting year for weather, from terrible floods to wonderful heat waves. Do we have to accept that from now on weather systems are going to become more unstable? If we do, how…
The Men Who Made Us Spend is a thought provoking series about consumerism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxm9b It made me consider again the occupational meaning of what we buy and how we buy. A…
“CARE LAND” (la Tierra que te cuida), was created with the aim of enhancing the opportunities that health-nature relationship opens to the development of areas of high environmental value (Nature…
Natural England have published a review of literature pertaining to Greening Dementia, concerningof the benefits and barriers facing individuals living with dementia in accessing the natural…
The 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has caused renewed concern among both clinicians and health policy makers. Climate change is continuing at an increasing rate. This…
May's edition ofOTnewshas the feature 'Responding to financial, climate and social change' on p.21. Here's a lnk for BAOT members: www.cot.co.uk/latest-features-ot-news/otnews-may-2014
Could our current mental health care system be too ‘deficit’ focused? This may explain why we have a system that is very well geared up for managing patients during relapse, but a system that has…