This week’s highlight project is the Virtual Glaucoma Surveillance Clinic carried out by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. This project offers a unique approach to curbing the high demand for…
Due to increases in the demand forophthalmology services,providers have been overburdened with referrals. Understanding how referral networks currentlywork can be an important tool toward reducing…
Hello everyone, my name Anna Michell and I have become the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s (CSH) newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer. My role with CSH will be to write up case…
The journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling is lookingfor original papers (research, case studies, review articles) on sustainable healthcare, to be submitted before June 1, 2019. For more…
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)? We are pleased to announce we have just started a new Sustainability Specialist Interest group- please do join us…
Welcome to my farewell post as an OT Sustainability Volunteer! One of mymain projects recently has been writing a report looking at the role of occupational therapists within the NHS…
Occupational therapy, with its holistic approach to problem-solving and ability to understand complex contextual factors, is in a position to play a critical role in framing issues around…
Did you know that healthcare creates 10% of the carbon emissions in the US [1] , 7% of emissions in Australia [2] and 5% of the total national emission in the UK [3] ?
“If the US health care sector…
Dear Members of Occupational Therapy Susnet,
We have received funding from the Network for Social Change to promote access to green spaces for mental health inpatients and we need your help.
We…