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National health organisations make their commitments to sustainable development

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30 Jan 2017
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The Department of Health and eight major health organisations have stated their organisational commitments to deliver a socially and environmentally sustainable health and care system. The…
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Words of advice for President Trump

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23 Jan 2017
by
Frances Mortimer
Bravo to Nick Hopkinson and co-authors of this letter on "Climate Change and Lung Health: the challenge for a new president" published in Thorax last…
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Carbon footprint of GSK inhalers

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11 Jan 2017
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Alexander Wilkinson
This isn't widely available but GSK have given it to me so I'm sharing it. It shows the carbon-trust-certified carbon footprint of their inhalers. Headline figures are: 30 days of seretide 250…
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New blog by Richard Smith...

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6 Jan 2017
by
Rachel Stancliffe
New blog by Richard Smith on sustainable mental health services in Lambeth http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/01/05/richard-smith-tales-of-sustainability-i-transforming-mental-health-services-in-lambeth/
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Choosing Wisely

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8 Nov 2016
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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…
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Air quality ruling

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3 Nov 2016
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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…
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Breathing the fresh air of co-benefits

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20 Oct 2016
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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…
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Examples of sustainability in Occupational Therapy courses

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29 Jul 2016
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Kay Fretwell
I’m Kay Fretwell - a student currently on placement with the Department for Sustainability at NUS. I’m putting together an A-Z of Sustainability in the Curriculum which will highlight 26 case studies,…
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40th COT Annual Conference

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6 Jul 2016
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Ben Whittaker
Last week saw the 40thCOT Annual Conference in Harrogateand as always it was a great conference, making people excited by what occupational therapy has to offer, and with lots of sustainability…
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Air quality posing a 'very high risk' to health at the Fort McMurray wildfire

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15 May 2016
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Is Alberta another very sobering 'right now' example of climate change affecting health? See the Canadian Government's assessment of the air quality at Fort McMurray:…