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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

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25 Mar 2024
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Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Focus group invitation: Identifying and reducing waste from piped nitrous in the NHS

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22 Mar 2024
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Claudia Rees
I work forUCLPartners Health Innovation Networkas Senior Implementation Manager for Climate, and am leading a project with NHS England to create a comprehensive toolkit to support NHS organisations…
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CSH, RCOG and RCM project on equitable, sustainable maternity care- PPIE recruitment

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19 Mar 2024
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Hazel Walsh
CSH is working with the RCOG and RCM to deliver a project engaging the maternity community in how to make changes to drive more equitable and sustainable maternity care. Our first steps include…
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International Day of the midwife climate webinar

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29 Feb 2024
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Alice Clack
I have just noticed this event being held by The Royal College of Midwives to celebrate the international day of the midwife on Sunday the 5th May. Talk Theme: Midwives: a vital climate…
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British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: The carbon footprint of different modes of birth in the UK and the Netherlands: An exploratory study using life cycle assessment

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29 Feb 2024
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Elizabeth Murphy
Recently published article in BJOG, comments welcome. Birth is common (~140 M births/year worldwide) and, in many countries, a caesarean birth is the commonest major surgical procedure. The…
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The International Confederation of Midwives IDM Theme 2024 Announcement!

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28 Feb 2024
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Rachael Ward
The International Confederation of Midwives(ICM) recognises that midwives are a vital solution in adapting health systems to climate change, and lowering carbon emissions overall. Midwives deliver…
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Calling all nurses and midwives, your views are needed!

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20 Feb 2024
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Rachael Ward
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is currently seeking nurses and midwives’ views as part of a quality improvement project about environmental sustainability in healthcare. We invite you to take…
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New Birth Companions and Wen publication: Reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK

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5 Feb 2024
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Rachael Ward
Birth Companions and Wen publish new paper on reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK Read the press release here Read and download the full paper and one-page summary…
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Are you a midwife? We need to hear from you!!!

Created on
5 Feb 2024
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Ayoma Ratnappuli
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is currently seeking nurses and midwives’ views as part of a quality improvement project about the environmental sustainability in healthcare. We would like to…
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Reducing MRI scanner duration project

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2 Feb 2024
by
Emma Vittery
Hi all, I'm scoping a project to help a secondary care team quantify carbon savings from work they've done to reduce the time people spent in MRI scanners, including reducing the need for general…