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Alongside Liz Sturgiss and Peter Tait I am guest editor for this special edition on the topic of Climate Crisis in a Family Medicine journal:
https://academic.oup.com/fampra/issue/40/3
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Interventions that consider climate change, sustainability, and nature should be integral to health system functioning. Placing sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future offers opportunities to…
After much discussion among the core group of SHE, we have developed the attached vision, mission and goals for our organisation. We hope that this will help to clarify our focus and drive our…
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…
New paper launched in conjunction with the new HealthcareLCA database. Paper discusses the new open-access database, methods and everything known about life cycle assessments (LCA's) in healthcare so…
We aimed to identify, collate, and summarise published evidence on the impacts of interventions to reduce low-value care in intensive care units (ICUs). Multiple evidence-based…
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October 2024
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Jake T W Williams, Florencia Moraga Masson, Forbes McGain, Rachel Stancliffe, Julia K Pilowsky, Nhi Nguyen, Katy J L Bell
In-hospital promotion of the oral route and IV to oral switch (IVOST) are key antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiatives providing benefits for patients, staff and the environment, including reduced…
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August 2024
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Rodger R, Robertson A, Thompson E, Downie K, Thompson S, Ray G, Chisholm L, Hillson R
A useful review examinging the environmental impact of dermatology healthcare and explores sustainable solutions such as teledermatology and waste reduction to reduce carbon emissions.
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Robert J Vanaria, Vishnu Bhupalam, Angelica Marrero-Perez, Aysham Chaudry, Nardin Awad, Mark Nestor
Publication in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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There is a bidirectional relationship between climate change and health care. Climate change threatens public health, and…
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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.…
