BMJ Editorial this week 'Combating climate change'
http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6178
This editorial gives an overview of the current issues in climate change and health. The related…
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…
Congratulations to the Young People with Dementia team in Wokingham in Berkshire, having won the RCPsych Psychiatric Team of the Year Award for older adults 2015!
The charity, which promotes…
New research by the London School of Economics (LSE) shows that regular brisk walking is the best exercise for keeping weight down. The research compared 30min of high impact walking with the same…
Yesterday at the Royal College of Nursing in central London, a group of clinicians, commissioners and other interested parties gathered for the launch of the new joint commissioning panel for mental…
My alarm buzzed at 03:40am, bleary eyed I stretched across to switch it off assuming I had made an alarm-setting mistake… then it dawned on me that it wasn’t a mistake, and that I had signed up to…
Four psychiatrists including Royal College of Psychiatrists Registrar, Dr Adrian James are showing their commitment to sustainability in mental health by cycling 65 miles from Oxford to London.
Dr…
Australian doctors are launching global campaign Doctors for Climate Action today - need as many signatures as possible before the launch, currently 542... http://doctorsforclimateaction.org/
In June this year, the RCPsych Sustainability Scholarship Programme 2015 -2016 was advertised. Higher trainees in Psychiatry were offered the chance to apply and be supported by the Centre for…
A PsychSusnet member Toby Pillinger interviews Daniel Maughan about his work on spreading awareness about sustainability across mental health services throughout his time as the RCPsych Sustainability…