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Would you like to attend a carbon workshop and/or become a sustainability champion? Read on...

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8 Jul 2014
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Are you interested in how sustainability relates to your work? Those within the Oxford AHSN area (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes) have access to sustainability…
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Divestment for Health

Created on
24 Jun 2014
by
Isobel Braithwaite
I'm writing this post to alert CSH members tothis motion(#370) which is on the agenda of the British Medical Association's Annual Representatives' Meeting tomorrow morning, on climate advocacy and…
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Winners of last year's SBRI Funding Competition announced

Created on
29 May 2014
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
The winners of last year's new Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition to find innovative technology based solutions in Kidney Care have been announced on 13th May 2014. The £3.6 m…
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Plant 2 trees @ 2 o'clock for NHS Sustainability Day

Created on
6 Mar 2014
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Mary Zacaroli
NHS Sustainability Day of Action takes place on 27th March, with lots of activities taking place around the country. The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is encouraging partners to plant 2 trees at 2…
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Oxford Academic Health Sciences Network leads nationally on sustainability

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12 Feb 2014
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Rachel Stancliffe
Oxford Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) is leading the way nationally in prioritising sustainability as a cross-cutting theme. We are pleased to announce that The Centre for Sustainable…
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Healthy Planet National Conference - request for help with publicity before the early bird deadline

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4 Feb 2014
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Isobel Braithwaite
Hi all,Below is the information about our upcoming conference; one of the organising committee has written a blog about it which she's posting soon. It would be very much appreciated if you could send…
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Request to sign an open letter on climate, energy and health to David Cameron

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20 Nov 2013
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Isobel Braithwaite
Hi, My name's Isobel Braithwaite and I'm a medical student at UCL; I've been involved with the CSH in the past as an intern and met some of you at CleanMed Europe. I'm involved in the student…
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Call for help with Patient Transport in Kidney Care

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14 Nov 2013
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Rachel Stancliffe
Hello All! CSH is thinking about starting a project to 1) look at patient transport in kidney care from both carbon and patient experience points of view and 2) run a pilot project in one hospital.…
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Right patient, right time, right place - an example from kidney care

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13 Nov 2013
by
Hugh Rayner
Dialysis treatment for end stage kidney disease is a burden on patients, taxpayers, and the environment. The carbon cost of dialysis is estimated to be seven tonnes CO2 equivalents per year. Although…
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The true cost of water: Understanding the value of water through monetization of risks

Created on
11 Nov 2013
by
Kalpesh Shah
Tuesday 19th November 2013, 1:00 pm (GMT) / 8:00 am (EST) Join this webinar with Veolia Water to find out about the growing business risks relating to water use, the need for a pragmatic metric and…