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Great to see the BRS looking at exercise in CKD

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17 Oct 2012
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Frances Mortimer
Picking up on the workshop run by Charlie Tomson at the Green Nephrology Summit last month on opportunities for primary and secondary prevention in kidney care, I was really glad to…
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RCN report says NHS could save £5.5m on waste management

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17 Oct 2012
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Frances Mortimer
This Health Estates & Facilities Management Association (HEFMA) article "Wasting Away" gives a nice introduction an RCN report on waste management in the NHS. It identifies some pretty enormous…
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Investigating the potential role of OT in sustainability -- research project

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11 Oct 2012
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Julie Dorsey
Hello everyone- I teach in the Dept of OT at Ithaca College, in Ithaca New York, USA. I recently completed my doctoral research looking at the role of occupational therapy in the emerging field of…
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Kidney care community calls on commissioners to support sustainable care

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11 Oct 2012
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Frances Mortimer
Delegates at the Green Nephrology Summit 2012, on 26th September, have issued a call to policy makers and healthcare commissioners to support them in bringing about the transformation to sustainable…
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CleanMed Europe Conference

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11 Oct 2012
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Rachel Stancliffe
Sharing challenges and solutions, I was one of 350 healthcare delegates from34 countries and 5 continentswho met at CleanMed 2012 in Malmo, Sweden to develop models for sustainable healthcare. "A…
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Coming back to the world, or, How a Canvas bag changed my life

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9 Oct 2012
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Ben Whittaker
Those of you that read my previous OT Susnet bloglast November may rightly have been expecting a number of other blogs to follow shortly afterwards. Indeed, I said that they would be. The next month I…
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Patient Perspective - Green Nephrology Summit 2012

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28 Sep 2012
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William Beale
My wife and I were invited to attend as patients the Green Nephrology Summit 2012. It was well managed and inspiring event. We had international perspective with a delegate from Australia who was…
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Newcastle Renal Unit wins Green Nephrology Award

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27 Sep 2012
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Frances Mortimer
The 2012 Award, presented at the Green Nephrology Summit yesterday, has gone to Newcastle Renal Unit for their "baling and recycling" project, modelled on one of the early case studies in Green…
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NHS Forest Conference- 18th October, Todmorden

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24 Sep 2012
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CSH is delighted to announce that this year's NHS Forest Autumn Event is to be held on the 18th October at Todmorden Health Centre, Lower George Street, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, OL14 5RN. The day…
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Sustainable Healthcare Education during NET 2012

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19 Sep 2012
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Stefi Barna
How can healthcare educators prepare their students for the clinical consequences of an increasingly unstable climate? What role can teachers and trainers have in changing clinical practice to support…