GMC welcomes sustainable healthcare learning priorities
The General Medical Council has welcomed recommendations from the Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) Network on priority learning outcomes for sustainable healthcare. Follow up plans are now being developed, including a wider consultation with medical schools and Royal Colleges.
Innovative Inhaler Recycling Project Expanded
In February 2011 GlaxoSmithKline and the Cooperative Pharmacy in partnership with TerraCycle UK launched the first respiratory inhaler recycling programme in Europe. Forty Cooperative pharmacies across South Wales and the South East of England were piloting the programme for an initial six months. While the pharmacies encouraged patients to drop off their inhalers at their branch, TerraCycle UK recycled every element of the inhaler. After proving a huge success, the project was extended to 200 Cooperative pharmacies from November 2011.
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Seminar: PVCFreeBloodBag Life+ project
This is very short notice and it's in Copenhagen, but just in case anyone is planning to be in Denmark this week, the use of PVC for medical consumables is certainly of relevance to dialysis patients as well as to recipients of blood transfusions. PVC has been phased out of a number of medical devices because of its harmful effects on health and on the environment.
PVCFreeBloodBag Life+ project KICK-OFF SEMINAR : http://www.pvcfreebloodbag.eu
Climate and health - Hugh Montgomery interviewed at the Durban Climate Talks
Hugh Montgomery was interviewed at the Durban UN Climate Talks by OneWorldTV in advance of next Sunday's Global Climate and Health Summit. OneWorld and OneClimate are streaming live coverage and interviews throughout the talks at www.oneworldgroup.org
