When I set out to create a college course about sustainability from the lens of an occupational therapist, I had no idea if it would create any real impact. Would students really care about how their…
There is some interesting reading on Sustainable Business on the Guardian website and a ‘Health and Wellbeing’ link. SeehereThe director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, David Pencheon, talks…
NICE has issued new guidance on how to promote walking and cycling to tackles our nations health problems due to inactivity. As we all know the ‘inactivity epidemic’ has massive health consequences.…
The Annual UN Climate Conference, COP18 took place last week in Doha. This year, Jonny Elliott went to represent Healthy Planet at the conference. It was a tiring, exciting and often frustrating…
A large proportion of healthcare resources go into providing care for people in their last few months of life, but it is not always apparent that the interventions they receive are what they really…
According to a new US based report 'Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve' sponsored by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and Health Care Without Harm, the…
Hello everyone- I teach in the Dept of OT at Ithaca College, in Ithaca New York, USA. I recently completed my doctoral research looking at the role of occupational therapy in the emerging field of…
Those of you that read my previous OT Susnet bloglast November may rightly have been expecting a number of other blogs to follow shortly afterwards. Indeed, I said that they would be. The next month I…
How can healthcare educators prepare their students for the clinical consequences of an increasingly unstable climate? What role can teachers and trainers have in changing clinical practice to support…
How the Green Deal could benefit GP premisesThe Green Deal is a new finance mechanism that could offer practices an alternative to traditional methods of financing refurbishments to surgeries…