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What is the carbon footprint of patients' travel to GP?

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14 Oct 2018
by
Harry Longman
I run askmyGP, which aims to make it easier for patients to get help from their own GP, and easier for GPs to give the right help. A key element of this is the finding that only about one in three…
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Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

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12 Sep 2018
by
Chantelle Rizan
Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)? We are pleased to announce we have just started a new Sustainability Specialist Interest group- please do join us…
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World Ophthalmology Congress 2018: Masterclass in Environmental Sustainability

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19 Jul 2018
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Did you know that healthcare creates 10% of the carbon emissions in the US [1] , 7% of emissions in Australia [2] and 5% of the total national emission in the UK [3] ? “If the US health care sector…
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Sustainability Series: What is the role of sustainable quality improvement?

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5 Jul 2018
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As part of CSH's "Sustainability Series" we have this month published a blog on Sustainable Quality Improvement- all about how healthcaresystems can re-aligntheir definition of value in order to…
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Sustainable Ophthalmic pathways - Cataract

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19 Jun 2018
by
John Somner
A great new resource has been put together by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists on Sustainable Cataract surgery Pathways. There are lots of tips and ideas which mayresult in increased…
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‘Eyefficiency’, the sustainability toolkit for catarct surgery, is entering its next phase!

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14 Jun 2018
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
CSH has been awarded another Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund* grant for the second phase of developing a web-based audit toolkit for measuring the triple bottom line of cataract surgery. During…
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Sign up to the CSH newsletter

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6 Jun 2018
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We are going to be sending out a CSH newsletter next week.. If you did not resubscribe when we asked you to in May, you may not receive it (due to changesin linewith GDPR)...so make sure to sign up…
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Sustainable Ophthalmology Prize 2018 - kindly sponsored by Bausch & Lomb

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24 May 2018
by
John Somner
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Sustainable Ophthalmology prize has been awarded for the third time. We had a strong field with several notable examples of sustainable care practices which can…
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Air Pollution

Created on
16 May 2018
by
Rosie Roberts
Hello - Im a final year medical student doing a 2 week placement with CSH. I am making a pamphlet for GPs suggesting ways in which they can help reduce their patient's exposure to air pollution. I…