Donating Made Easy
News Article Ingeborg 03/05/2012 - 2:45pm
Some of you have asked whether you can donate money to help our work. We have always accepted cheques, but The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) has now signed up to Just Giving to make it easier for you to donate small amounts on a regular basis.
CSH is a very small charity, and funding for our core costs is entirely provided by donations and project-focused support. You can help us work to safeguard the future of health and healthcare by contributing to our funding. Please take 5 minutes to donate - any amount will help! Thank you.
Make a donation to the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
Blog Article Sally Aston 23/04/2012 - 10:17amChildren at risk of Nature Deficiency Syndrome!
Blog Article Sally Aston 16/04/2012 - 2:43pmThe National Trust is highlighting the fact that the health of our children is greatly affected by the lack of exposure to nature...
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Intercare - sending unused medicines to Africa
Blog Article Annie Elkins 11/04/2012 - 10:30amIt is tragic to think how many unused medicines go into the bin. Check out this charity which arranges for unused medicines to be sent to Africa to be given to those who would otherwise go without. Sign your practice / local pharmacy up!
The BMJ highlights the issues of Sustainability
Blog Article Sally Aston 28/03/2012 - 10:34pmWhat with Climate Change week recently and NHS Sustanability Day today the BMJ highlighted Sustainbility in last weeks BMJ (published March 19th) with a series of excellent articles.
Why not have a read. Links to the articles can be found in the body of this blog.
NHS Sustainability Day- March 28th
Blog Article Sally Aston 12/03/2012 - 9:17pmThe NHS Sustainability Day is on the 28th March 2012
Go to http://www.nhssustainabilityday.co.uk/index.html
Is there any way that you can get involved?
This website has so many ideas for making change towards Sustainability, some of which are easy and very achievable!
Carry out an energy survey in your organisation between now and Friday 23rd March. Use the simple survey downloadable HERE. Every audit submitted will help to create a better picture of energy use in the NHS. It will highlight opportunities for making savings, which could be translated into patient services.
Climate Week 12th-18th March
Blog Article Sally Aston 08/03/2012 - 11:20pmIt's Climate Week next week. Find out more at http://www.climateweek.com.
This is deemed Britains biggest climate change campaign; inspiring a new wave of action towards a Sustainable future.
Has anyone got any plans for an event at their practice? If so, can you let the network know how it goes?
If this is the first you've heard about it, it's not too late to download some of the resources and put together a display for a noticeboard in your patient waiting room.
90% Less: why greener healthcare is leaner healthcare
Blog Article Ingeborg 25/01/2012 - 2:22pmOur conference organized in partnership with The Thames Valley Health Innovation and Education Cluster is taking place on 24th February 2012. The day offers a great opportunity to find out about the most recent developments in sustainable healthcare including a launch of the emergent research agenda from The King's Fund. Experts will outline the major issues before looking in depth at some of the available solutions including how to cut medicines waste, benefits of greenspace, patient and staff engagement and active transport.
How a GP phone call is reducing patient travel to surgery by 40% - the Patient Access method.
Blog Article harrylongman 18/01/2012 - 7:08pm
When a patient calls the surgery, the first response is for the GP to return the phone call. They begin to deal with the problem straight away, and only 1 in 3 patients needs to come in to see the GP.
The time saved means more patients can be treated, and overall 40% fewer patients are making the trip to the surgery.
Already over 40 diverse practices run the service for 350,000 patients.
