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Examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice wanted

Created on
30 Sep 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
Hello there, If you have any good examples ofoccupational therapy practice in the following areas then do please get in touch with me at the below email address: - Equipment re-use or…
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Climate strike, climate emergency, XR and OT

Created on
16 Sep 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has published a new page about the current planetary health emergency:https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/planetary-health-emergency It includes links to…
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Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

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28 Jun 2019
by
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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Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

Created on
9 Jun 2019
by
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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.…
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Climate advocacy networking

Created on
2 May 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…
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Examples wanted for OTnews article about sustainable practice

Created on
8 Apr 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
An article is planned fora forthcoming edition of OTnews exploring examples of sustainable practice in various different settings. Are you practicing occupational therapy in a sustainable way? Or…
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Can Occupational Therapist’s social models of practice offer long term sustainable solutions in healthcare?

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26 Feb 2019
by
Anna Michell
Check out Michelle Perryman on Episode 13 of the Podcast “Occupied” (http://www.brockcook.com/013/) eloquently speak about how Occupational Therapists as a young profession in a medical model world…
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Introductory blog from CSH's newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer

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17 Dec 2018
by
Anna Michell
Hello everyone, my name Anna Michell and I have become the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s (CSH) newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer. My role with CSH will be to write up case…
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Acid concentrate dilution

Created on
29 Nov 2018
by
Fraser Gilmour
From the sustainability session discussions at the recent ART conference it was identified that there are still a significant number of UK trusts using 1:34 dilution acidinstead of the stronger and…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

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15 Nov 2018
by
James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…