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‘Eyefficiency’, the sustainability toolkit for catarct surgery, is entering its next phase!

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14 Jun 2018
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Ingeborg Steinbach
CSH has been awarded another Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund* grant for the second phase of developing a web-based audit toolkit for measuring the triple bottom line of cataract surgery. During…
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Sign up to the CSH newsletter

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6 Jun 2018
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We are going to be sending out a CSH newsletter next week.. If you did not resubscribe when we asked you to in May, you may not receive it (due to changesin linewith GDPR)...so make sure to sign up…
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Sustainable Ophthalmology Prize 2018 - kindly sponsored by Bausch & Lomb

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24 May 2018
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John Somner
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Sustainable Ophthalmology prize has been awarded for the third time. We had a strong field with several notable examples of sustainable care practices which can…
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NHS Employers Sustainable Health and Care Campaign

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27 Feb 2018
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Beth Barnes
For your interest please find below an upcoming NHS sustainabilitycampaign, which has been brought to our attention at The Royal College of Ophthalmologists,with a number of events, activities and…
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Paper highlighting environmental footprint of efficient cataract surgical model

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7 Dec 2017
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Cassandra Thiel
Hello everyone, (I've cross-posted this with the Sustainable Operating Theatres forum, so pardon me if you're receiving this twice.) I'm very excited to share my new publication- "Cataract surgery…
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Summary of Climate and health session - All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change

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23 Nov 2017
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This was a very research-rich event which clearly put climate change on the health 'to-do' list. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change (one of the organisers) has produced a good summary…
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Where do your optometry and ophthalmology instruments come from?

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16 Nov 2017
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Rosie Hillson
Have you ever thought about the ethical and environmental impacts of eye health procurement? A questionnaire to find out about this very issue has been designed. Simon Berry, quoted in Optometry…
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The Adult Health and Social Care Crisis - Green Infrastructure as Part of the Solution

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9 Oct 2017
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I was asked to contribute a health-related article for a special Green Infrastructure themed edition of Town and Country Planning, the journal of the TCPA. This is the outcome. It is driven largely…
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Institutional Rhythms: Ideas and Opportunities for energy and mobility demand in the NHS.

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20 Sep 2017
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Dr. Stanley Blue from the University of Lancaster has been working with the DEMAND centre (www.demand.ac.uk) which studies the dynamics of energy, mobility and demand. He has been working at…