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All BMJ Leader Environmental sustainability articles are open access for 2 months to coincide with COP.This one looks at examples of how professional standards could include environmental…
Due to climate change the risks and variety of pandemics is increasing. This is an article written by an American nurse practitioner about their experience of setting up a vaccination programme for…
A nursing times article about a staff well-being project that involved nursing staff receiving plants to care for in non-clinical spaces. The article describes how nurses and their colleagues at…
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Happy to share a recently published article that look at new clinical reasoning (professional reasoning) that can specifically target environmental sustainable healthcare provision. The…
This evaluation shows that Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is effective in relieving distress in palliative care and may be considered a valued therapeutic intervention. The findings can inform…
The need for evidence-based practice in health care is now well accepted. Best practice is likely to change over time with the emergence of new research evidence and may be influenced by other…
This report presents a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation of the ‘Making Well:
Health & Healing through Green Craft' programme.
Developed and delivered by The Fathom Trust as part of a…
Published date
August 2022
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by
Whiteley, Holly; Lynch, Mary; Hartfiel, Ned; Beharrell, William ; Cuthbert, Andrew ; Edwards, Rhiannon Tudor
This is a interesting alternative to the CSH principles of sustainable healthcare and the GNHS workstreams.
'We propose five policy principles:
1. Reduce healthcare demand through increased…
The soils of five potted plants cultivated within a hospital were investigated for the presence of fungal opportunistic pathogens of humans. A total of 16 potentially pathogenic species were isolated,…