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New postgraduate module - Sustainable Healthcare Principles

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20 May 2022
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Heather Baid
The University of Brighton will be launching a new module in the next academic year called: Sustainable Healthcare Principles This module is open to all disciplines and can be taken as…
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SHARE conference - 6 May 2022 - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

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14 Apr 2022
by
Heather Baid
SHARE conference - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise 6 May 2022 10am-4pm BST (British Standard Time) Free on Zoom - open to anyone interested in sustainable…
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Sustainability self assessment tool for optical practices

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6 Apr 2022
by
Antonia Chitty
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey towards sustainability. Practices can use this to…
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ACTION REQUIRED - Calling all those involved in Cataract Surgery - 1 tree will be planted for every 100 completed surveys

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25 Mar 2022
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Ellie McCance
UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the UK, and…
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UK attitudes towards waste in cataract surgery

Created on
20 Oct 2021
by
Aijing Wang
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the world and the UK. Therefore, there are a number of papers looking at carbon footprint of cataract surgery and ways to reduce it. In…
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CFMS HEART: NATIONAL REPORT ON PLANETARY HEALTH EDUCATION 2021

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13 Sep 2021
by
Heather Baid
The Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Reponse Task Force recently released this report: CFMS HEART: National Report on Planetary Health Education…
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Climate Change Urgency and Action webinar series

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8 Sep 2021
by
Heather Baid
The Intensive Care Society has a fantastic lineup of speakers for a weekly lunchtime (one hour) webinar series called Climate Change Urgency and…
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Sustainable Healthcare Reading List

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25 Jun 2021
by
Jennifer Strong
Hi all, I work in the sustainability team for my Trust and I'm collaborating with our libraries to curate a sustainable healthcare reading list for them to promote in the coming months on the run up…
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Call to Action for Environmentally Sustainable Practices in the Eye Health Sector

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22 Apr 2021
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
In celebration of #EarthDay2021, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has declared a #ClimateEmergency and released a Call to Action for Environmentally Sustainable…
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My role as W.I.S.E. Sustainability Fellow in Ophthalmology

Created on
27 Jan 2021
by
Aijing Wang
Environment and climate change have been areas I’ve been passionate about for a while, and I have made changes in my personal life to decrease my own carbon footprint. However, I have been at a loss…