Greener Healthcare

Sustainable healthcare: Q&A with David Pencheon
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1 March 2011 — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
The NHS needs to be proactive if it is to meet its ambitious carbon reduction targets. To help, the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) has published a ‘Route map for …
Cutting carbon: what the NHS can learn from retail
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16 Feb. 2011 — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
What’s a chocolate pudding got to do with sustainability? Marks & Spencer think quite a bit. Four years into its Plan A environmental action program the retailer has …
What future for NHS carbon cuts?
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28 Sept. 2010 — written by Guppi Bola, Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Nik Attryde, strategic development manager for NHS Bristol reflects on what a new white paper means for carbon reduction in the NHS. The recent white paper: ‘Equity and …
BMJ FEATURE ON 10:10 CAMPAIGN
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7 Oct. 2010 — written by Tim Nicholson, Low Carbon Oxford North
Giving it 10% Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist nigel.hawkes1@btinternet.com Low carbon dinners, hand driers, and ditching old fridges are just some of the tactics …
Peoples unite - give us our (bicycle) chains
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10 Feb. 2011 — written by robin stott, Climate and Health Council
Who believes that any health service, however configured, will be able to cope with a population with an obesity prevalence of 40%? In the face of the systemic problems …
Sustainable Respiratory Medicine
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22 Sept. 2011 — written by Ingeborg Steinbach, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS? The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) is starting an exciting …
Campaign Profile - Health and Environment Alliance
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7 Dec. 2010 — written by Guppi Bola, Campaign for Greener Healthcare
From asthma and allergies, diabetes and reproductive problems to cancer and obesity, environmental degradation plays a role... HEAL ensures our voices on these issues are …
Sustainable Food Bill - We Need Your Support
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20 Sept. 2010 — written by Ingeborg Steinbach, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
Each year the government spends more than £2 billion on food served in the public sector - schools, hospitals, care homes and the armed forces - which is not required to …
10:10 Monthly Theme - Giving
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1 Dec. 2010 — written by Tim Nicholson, Low Carbon Oxford North
There are growing opportunities for green gifts - check out my ideas below. Instead of throwing away your surplus medical supplies and equipment why not donate it …
Driving Round in Circles
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9 Feb. 2010 — written by Andy Connor, NHS
Between March 31st 2008 and April 1st 2009, the renal team in a DGH not too far from me requested that their patients attend the hospital's radiology department as …