Diabetes and climate change are two urgent challenges in the21st century. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF)has produced a pioneering policy report that establishesboth the interconnections…
Many of you will have heard of and read the award-winning book The Spirit Level, which highlighted the damage that increasing inequality has done to our society, especially with regards to health, and…
It's Bike Week this week!Its main aim is to encourage colleagues and maybe even patients to get on their bikes and remember how much they enjoy cycling!What can you do:You can send around an email to…
If health is based on social determinants (WHO 2008), if health is based on the physical environment (Barton and Grant 2006), then, just as slavery and apartheid were crimes aganst humanity, ecocide…
The Centre's Sustainable Respiratory Care group will lead research on why the UK continues to use inhalers with a much higher carbon footprint than other European countries. 25,000 people a year die…
Update on SHE Network activities in 2011-12 - including award of HEA grant, GMC liaison, draft curriculum consultation, conference presentations and workshops, publications by SHE members. Download…
The Association of Surgeons in Great Britain and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have published a Consensus Statement on Cost-effective and Sustainable Surgery. The statement is based on …
The Green Nephrology Programme successfully bid for funding for the Heat Exchangers project from 10:10 in 2011. The objective is to save energy and carbon in kidney care by encouraging retrofitting of…
If you are involved in teaching or training, or would like to influence the future GP workforce in areas concerning sustainability, you might find the following link to the Severn Deanery website…
June has arrived and this month's green theme is... cycling. Bike Week 2012 is running from 16-24 June this year and it would be great if kidney units could take part.
The main aim is to encourage…