As many NHS professionals will be aware the NHS has committed to reduce its carbon footprint in line with the Climate Change Act (2008) but, aside from ensuring that legislative targets are reached,…
A systematic review and meta-analysis, published in the Lancet Global Health highlights important priority areas for sustianable global eye health in the future.
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Today CSH has launched the Green Nurse Network in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing, the Faculty of Heath & Human Sciences at Plymouth University and Medact.
Nurses are the…
Today CSH has launched the Green Nurse Network in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing, the Faculty of Heath & Human Sciences at Plymouth University and Medact.
Nurses are the…
Remediating paper cup wastage in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford – A summary
The Oxford University Student Consultancy, on behalf of Medact Oxford, consulted with consumers and providers of hot…
I recently attended a conference at the King’s Fund in London entitled ‘Social prescribing; from rhetoric to reality’. It was a great day with lots of interesting speakers sharing their views and…
GP Sustainability scholar, Dr Claudia Wegner, is working on a project to improve the wellbeing of the elderly population in Cheddar. The initiative provides time and space for younger and older people…
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness is the main partner in the W.H.O."VISION 2020; Right to Sight" global initiative to prevent avoidable blindness by 2020. The IAPB board…
The Leeds Collective including Andy Cassels-Brown, Simon Dewsbery, Jen Green, Mitch Menage and Peter Galloway from St James's University Hospital won this year's sustainability prize for their work on…
This is the second year of the sustainable ophthalmology prize at the Annual Congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Seventy-three clinical teams entered of whom 15 have been…