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The cataract surgery audit tool ‘Eyefficiency’ was designed to identify opportunities for sites to minimize the footprint of cataract surgical services and to increase access to cataract surgery for…
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May 2020
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Thiel, C. L., Cassels-Brown, A., Goel, H., Stancliffe, R., Steinbach, I., Thomas, P., & Vendries, J.
Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems. Medical schools can act…
Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit…
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Spooner, R., Stanford, V., Parslow-Williams, S., Mortimer, F., & Leedham-Green, K.
Article outlining the work of the Sustainability in Pharmacy Education group (UK and Ireland) in education on planetary health and sustainable healthcare in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum.
We are happy to share our latest SusQI publication.In this paper we share the perspectives of 11 SusQI course leads from partner organisations on how SusQI can be successfully implemented in diverse…
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June 2025
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Victoria Stanford, Kathleen Leedham-Green, Alice Clack, Siobhan Parslow-Williams, Ayoma Ratnappuli and Frances Mortimer
The IJME has published an article about the development of priority learning objectives for environmental sustainability in medical education, which was led by the SHE Network in 2012-13.
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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…
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The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…
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BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…
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January 2024
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Walpole S, Popat A, Blakey EP, Holden E, Whittaker B, Saggu R, Fennell-Wells A, Armit K & Hothi D
Sustainable Healthcare Education—a network of academics, doctors, and health-care students—has developed three simple learning objectives to communicate the links between medical practice and a more…
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November 2014
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Thompson, T., Walpole, S., Braithwaite, I., Inman, A., Barna, S., and Mortimer, F.