Just to build on the comments about older age loneliness and the impact on MH, one report shows that GPs are seeing people simply because their patients are seeking company to fill their loneliness -…
Quite excited to now be a member of the Tyne Esk and Wyre Valley's trust's newly established Environmental Steering Group! We met for the first time a month ago and will be meeting again next week to…
It is one week until NHS Sustainability Day. How are you marking this date??
As I type this the Chancellor of the Exchequer has decided to freeze fuel duty, which means ongoing cheaper fuel… which…
At the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry Conference in Nottingham last week, 2 sustainability scholars set up a stand on sustainability in mental healthcare.
We presented a poster looking at the…
In Autumn 2015, four lovely psychiatry trainees were appointed as part-time Sustainability Scholars, charged with takingforward the work begun by Daniel Maughan in his 2013-15 Fellowship.
While…
Applications are now open for a grant award for those interested in sustainability in anaesthesia (closing date 29 April 2016).
The programme, which is supported by Association for Anaesthetists…
In a series of very interesting articles in the most recent issue of BJPsych International, Dr Daniel Maughan and others consider the theme of social sustainability in mental healthcare.
The…
The health sector is over the first hurdle in the race to reach carbon reduction targets and help limit the effects of climate change.
A report from the Sustainable Development Unit shows the NHS…
January offers staff at UCLH and Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trusts the chance to welcome in the New Year by developing greener approaches to the work of their ward/unit. Green Ward Competitions were…
A shiny new Combined Heat & Power plant has just opened at Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust as the first of a year of initiatives which will also include a Green Ward Competition. The Trust is now…