The NHS Long Term Plan, published earlier this month, makes two references to inhaler climate change impact:
Pg 120: The carbon footprint of health and social care has reduced by 19% since 2007,…
The Sustainable Healthcare EducationNetwork is planning a series of regional (UK) workshops in May-June 2019.
These will be inter-professional events, designedto support universities in introducing…
The GMC has recently announced that it requires all UK medical schools to ensure that graduating doctors are able to apply the principles of sustainable healthcare to their practice by 2020 [1]. There…
We are planning to submit at least one abstract for a workshop on sustainable healthcare education at the AMEE 2019Association for Medical Education in Europeconference.
If anyone would like to…
New research published in The Lancet medical journal shows that rising temperatures as a result of climate change are already exposing us to an unacceptably high health risk and warns, for the first…
A national (English) working group has been formed toestablish the approach and a potential target for reducing the climate change impact of inhalers.
The impetus for the expert working group is to…
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
Listening to feedback from our members and sustainable healthcare education representatives, we have identified that assessing sustainable healthcare is a troublesome area, and people feel out of…
Members of the SHE network may already be aware of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), which is hosted by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
The…
The Planetary Health Alliance is working to better assist students (both graduate and undergraduates) find summer internships, field experiences, or research projects in the field of planetary health.…