On the 23rd of March I was lucky to be among a group of respiratory professionals, representatives from primary care, nursing, academic and the pharmaceutical industry as we came together to discuss…
A little while ago GlaxoSmithKline funded a joint study with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and Accenture. The outcome was a report entitled "Climate Change…
We are pleased to announce the upcoming special issue of the journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation (IOS Press) which will focus exclusively on Green Ergonomics,…
Hi all,Here is a link to the COT's specialist section on learning disabilities, they are calling on OT's to produce an audit tool that service users can use to evaluate their own living space. This…
Value is a concept which is making waves in the management / leadership / policy world of medicine at the moment. It is not an entirely new concept, but has been worked on and promoted as an approach…
In February 2011 GlaxoSmithKline and the Cooperative Pharmacy in partnership with TerraCycle UK launched the first respiratory inhaler recycling programme in Europe. Forty Cooperative pharmacies…
(Beaver dam and aspens from the Deer Valley Grocery-Café, Park City, Utah)In October 2011, I had the privilege of helping Mami Aoyama and Moses Ikiugu to organize a double session on occupation and…
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental…
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental…
(Left to Right:Izuru Sakai, Mark Hudson, Teena Clouston,Marie Anne Ben, Mami Aoyama. Inset: Moses Ikiugu)The annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Occupation: USA (SSO: USA) was held in Park…