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I am a Deputy Charge Nurse of a Recovery Unit in Scotland
I am about 2 months into a Q.I project of reducing our clinical waste by maximising correct waste segregation procedures.
I am also…
An article is planned fora forthcoming edition of OTnews exploring examples of sustainable practice in various different settings.
Are you practicing occupational therapy in a sustainable way? Or…
In January 2019, NHS England published its Long Term Plan, setting out its commitments for the next ten years - including how it will deliver on the carbon reduction targets from the 2008 UK Climate…
The University of Brighton School of Health Sciences 5th annual sustainability conference will be held 3 May 2019.
The conference aims to present the diversity of sustainable practices within…
Check out Michelle Perryman on Episode 13 of the Podcast “Occupied” (http://www.brockcook.com/013/) eloquently speak about how Occupational Therapists as a young profession in a medical model world…
An update to a post i entered 8 months ago. Since introducing regular monitoring of our anaesthetic gas usage and encouraging reduced desflurane use we continue to see a steady decline in Desflurane…
I would like to introduce myself as the new manager for the Network. I would love to make 2019 a year for connecting even more members of the surgical team who feel strongly about environmental…
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…
CSH is excited to be working with new colleagues from surgery and anaestheticsto develop thisSustainable Operating Theatres network in the coming months.
Chantelle Rizan joined CSH in August…
The government has made £46 million available through Public Dividend Capital funding for NHS trusts to improve and expand the use of LED lighting across their services, to save the NHS money and…