In the week in which dementia overtook heart disease to become the leading cause of death in England and Wales, CSH hosted a flagship national conference which looked at how we can use the natural…
Five trainee psychiatrists have taken up the baton as sustainability scholars this Autumn, and are busy learning all about sustainability in mental health care and shaping their projects for the…
Attached to this are the slides from the recent Transfroming Mental Health and Dementia with the Natural Environment conference, organised by CSH on behalf of the National Outdoors for All Working…
On the 24th October 2016 the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges brought out a report called Choosing Wisely . It was inspired by a world-wide initiative to encourage greater communication between…
This week the High Court found the government's action on air quality to be inadequate. In the second successful case against the government in two years brought by the legal charity Client Earth, the…
Welcome to my first blog as one of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Sustainability Scholars of 2016-17! In this post I’ll be focusing on joint medical appointments as a sustainable way to optimise…
Since 2003, patients in Denmark have had access to their electronic health record through a national portal called www.sundhed.dk. This enables all parties in health sectors to collaborate with the…
On 24th October 2016 The Academy of Royal Colleges published a list of 40 interventions which have little or no benefit for patients, as part of the Choosing Wisely…
Recently it feels like air pollution's spread beyond the concern of those who care about public health to become a more mainstream issue. It's getting a lot of press, what with the good work of…