January offers staff at UCLH and Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trusts the chance to welcome in the New Year by developing greener approaches to the work of their ward/unit. Green Ward Competitions were…
A shiny new Combined Heat & Power plant has just opened at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust as the first of a year of initiatives which will also include a Green Ward Competition. The Trust is now…
What do tomorrow’s doctors need to learn about ecosystems? – A BEME Systematic Review: BEME Guide No. 36
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Publication just out in Medical…
Call for papers and posters:
The symposium aims to present the diversity of sustainable practices within health and social care settings and to inspire change towards more sustainable practices. We…
Hello! We are in the process of confirming and finalising our sessions for the first SSU we have set up entitled 'Medicine, Environmental Sustainability and Healthcare'. Myself and Dr Tom Pierce (lead…
Congratulations to Dr Ann Wylie for winning KCL sustainability award for her work in medical education.
"As a consequence of her efforts, all 450 fourth-year medical students in the new King’s…
Ethylene Oxide sterilization has been use for recycling some consumable surgical items in Sri Lanka as well as rest of South Asia. The Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka has directed that herewith this…
The third of the Priority Learning Outcomes for Sustainable Healthcare requires that medical students:
Discuss how the duty of a doctor to protect and promote health is shaped by the dependence of…
It was exciting to see sustainability centre stage at the major international medical education conference, AMEE 2015, which took place in Glasgow earlier this month.
Dr Sarah Walpole, Research…
Are you an academic or health professional working on sustainable healthcare or environmental health? Would you be able to help healthcare students engage with "the greatest threat to global health of…