"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…
Wonder if anyone caught this in the Scottish Daily Mail (23/10):
4.7m cups thrown away by dentists every year
DENTISTS in Scotland are throwing away a shocking 4.7million plastic cups a…
I run askmyGP, which aims to make it easier for patients to get help from their own GP, and easier for GPs to give the right help.
A key element of this is the finding that only about one in three…
Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)? We are pleased to announce we have just started a new Sustainability Specialist Interest group- please do join us…
A fantastic year on since starting as ‘Sustainable Dentistry Scholars’, the time has come for Darshini and I to hang up our scholar hats!
This past year we have been supported by CSH and Health…
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Creating a video showing how sustainability can be incorporated into dental practice was one of the projects Sara and I worked on this…
On the 29th June 2018the UK’s first Sustainable Dentistry conference: ‘Sustainable Dentistry- innovation and future proofing’ was held in London. This exciting event was hosted byHealth Education…
As part of CSH's "Sustainability Series" we have this month published a blog on Sustainable Quality Improvement- all about how healthcaresystems can re-aligntheir definition of value in order to…
From 1st July, UK law will come into effect stipulating dentists should not be placing amaglam in under 15's, deciduous teeth or pregnant/ breastfeeding women except when stictly necessary.…
Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign. Populations are ageing and changing andtechnologies continue to evolve and expand;meanwhile, services are…