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Making your dental practice green

Created on
23 Jun 2016
by
Divya Verma
Check this article out on ways to make your dental practice more sustainable: http://www.nature.com/articles/bdjteam2016101
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Preventable deaths data for Europe

Created on
9 Jun 2016
by
Admin *
Eurostat data published online and also discussed in the Lancet sets a staggering prevention challenge for us. One million of the 1.7 million deaths that occured in the under 75s in 2013 might have…
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Funding available for innovations to improve health care

Created on
11 May 2016
by
Frances Mortimer
The Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK, has £1.5 million available for up to 20 teams to test and develop…
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UK health services unprepared for climate change, warns major new health alliance

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30 Mar 2016
by
Frances Mortimer
UK health services are currently unprepared for the risks posed by climate change, warns a major newhealth alliancelaunching today. In an unprecedented move, the heads of the UK’s leading health…
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Minamata Convention confirms amalgam to be gradually phased out

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25 Feb 2016
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Divya Verma
The final ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury has beenagreedconfirmingthat individual nations can work gradually to scale down the use of amalgam.The Convention is aninternational…
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Health sector hits first target in combating climate change - SDU report

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28 Jan 2016
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Frances Mortimer
The health sector is over the first hurdle in the race to reach carbon reduction targets and help limit the effects of climate change. A report from the Sustainable Development Unit shows the NHS…
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Dentists come out in support of sugar tax

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27 Jan 2016
by
Frances Mortimer
Interesting to see that the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) is backing calls for sugary drinks to be taxed - a good example of health professionals as advocates for preventative…
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Will free wifi in the NHS help healthcare's sustainability?

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8 Dec 2015
by
Jacqueline Cutting
In this article, Baroness Martha Lane-Fox says that free wi-fi will allow patients staying in hospital to self-monitor their conditions using apps, maintain contact with social networks that can…
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JRF's new report on community resilience to climate change

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24 Nov 2015
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This evidence review looks at how the resilience of communities to climate change in the UK is currently understood and practised? It explores this varied and contested field to build the…
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New outdoor gym equipment and woodland walks help preventative care in Doncaster

Created on
13 Nov 2015
by
Jacqueline Cutting
The Friends of Woodfield Park, a community group in Doncaster, have recently set up a weekly woodland walk in the grounds of the former St Catherine's Hospital adjacent to Tickhill Road Hospital. Last…