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February Reflective Questions

Created on
30 Jan 2020
by
Vivien De Greef
On my last post I proposed a New Years sustainable OT goal - to read through the WFOT (2018) Sustainability matters: Guiding Principles for Sustainability in Occupational Therapy Practice, Education…
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“Researchers call for thoughtful waste management in dentistry”

Created on
24 Jan 2020
by
Layla Taleb
An interesting article from Harvard school of Dental Medicine looking at the correlation between environmental and oral…
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Reflective Questions for December/January

Created on
16 Dec 2019
by
Vivien De Greef
Following on from Ben Whittakers post, it is great news that the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have included the WFOT 5 Guiding Principles for Sustainable Occupational Therapy…
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Sustainability incorporated into RCOT learning and development standards

Created on
10 Dec 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
The new RCOT learning and development standards have been published, which you can find here. They state that sustainability issues need to be addressed in occupational therapy curricula. Standard…
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Where to start?

Created on
9 Dec 2019
by
Ka Yan Hess
Hi everyone I have been a long time watcher of this lovely network. I have recently volunteered myself to be a sustainability lead to embed sustainability into our curriculum at a UK university…
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Care Home Dental Provider Moves to Electric Car Shares

Created on
29 Nov 2019
by
Mark Platt
Dental care provider gives electric car share scheme green light A Glasgow-based dental care provider is doing its bit for the environment by utilising a shared electric car for business…
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We're scaling up to carbon-neutral healthcare

Created on
28 Nov 2019
by
Admin *
The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action. We are excited to have more and more nurses and doctors contacting us…
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New Sustainable Occupational Therapy Volunteer

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19 Nov 2019
by
Vivien De Greef
Hi everyone, I’ve joined The Centre For Sustainable Healthcare as their new Occupational Therapy Volunteer and will be updating the resources on the webpages, writing a monthly post on the OT…
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Sustainable Dentistry Interview for Modern Dentist Magazine

Created on
6 Nov 2019
by
Sara Harford
Darshini Ramabasubbu and myself were interviewed by the 'Modern Dentist Magazine' in their issue titled 'Old ways won't open new doors' about environmentally sustainable dentistry, for our thoughts…
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Examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice wanted

Created on
30 Sep 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
Hello there, If you have any good examples ofoccupational therapy practice in the following areas then do please get in touch with me at the below email address: - Equipment re-use or…