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Update from our first W.I.S.E. Sustainability Scholar in Ophthalmology

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16 Oct 2019
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E. (Wales, Ireland, Scotland England) Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholar in Scotland supported by a grant from Bausch and Lomb during 2019. Bausch and Lomb’s funding…
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RCGP Priorities consultation

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9 Oct 2019
by
Christelle Blunden
https://www.rcgp.org.uk/policy/rcgps-policy-and-campaigns-priorities-2020-2023.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0ExmJyD1QpWMNlG7ShcDwYDf_w1jMn-vfIh9z0duGZ0zeSM7Ix8QAm-zE Please click here and tell RCGP to…
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Support from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for Sustainable Surgery PhD

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27 Sep 2019
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Frances Mortimer
We are delightedthat our CSH Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan has been awarded a Surgical Research Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng). This supports her PhD…
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We need to talk about Des...

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25 Sep 2019
by
Kenneth Barker
I thought members of the network may be interested in hearing about our work at Raigmore Hospital, where we managed to reduce our carbon emissions from volatile agents by 4.5% (from 5%) to…
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Environmental costs of investigations

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19 Sep 2019
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Hello Can anyone point me in the direction of a resource which provides numbers for the environmental costs of investigations such as x-rays and ultrasound scans. I'm trying to demonstrate the…
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Senior Clinical Auditor, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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29 Jul 2019
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We are just starting to try and introduce and rationalise waste recycling into theatres (the trust does not recycle anything!). If anyone else has already done something similar I would be grateful to…
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NICE inhaler decision aid - feedback anyone?

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19 Jul 2019
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Frances Mortimer
Does anyone have experience of using the NICE patient decision aid forinhalers (which includesa section on environmental impacts)?It would be really useful to know how people have found it. Has it…
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Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

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28 Jun 2019
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Stefi Barna
"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of…
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'Eyefficiency' has successfully undergone 2 rounds of beta-testing!

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27 Jun 2019
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
As reported a year ago, CSH has been awarded another Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund* grant for the second phase of developing with its partners, a web-based ‘Eyefficiency’ audit toolkit for…
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Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

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9 Jun 2019
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As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocating insufficient funding due to council spending cuts.…