Short courses in sustainability, health and healthcare

Our training courses offer a mix of core concepts and case studies, followed by live online workshops with expert advice on applying theory to practice in your setting. Designed for health professionals, educators, sustainability or estates managers, the courses prepare you to implement sustainability projects in your workplace, conduct research and contribute to developing and delivering your organisation’s Green Plan. 

Foundation-Level Courses 

We recommend starting with one of our broad multidisciplinary or specialty-specific foundation courses:

If your speciality is represented, we advise attending that course, rather than the multidisciplinary Introduction course. Speciality courses cover all introductory material but are tailored to your field and allow the opportunity to train and network with peers.

Technical Courses 

These in-depth courses build skills for planning and measuring projects. It is helpful to have knowledge about sustainable healthcare before attending, from a Foundation-level course, from the eLFH module ‘Building a Net Zero NHS’ or similar. 

 

Course Format

I. Self-study:  A 4–6-hour interactive online package with case studies which opens 3 weeks before your booked course. After working through the materials you are invited to identify a sustainability project you would like to undertake in your setting (optional). 

II. Workshop: A 4-hour small group online workshop facilitated by national experts to answer questions and help you design and implement a sustainability project. 

III. Sustainable Healthcare Café: The two-hour cafés offer a friendly and informal setting in which to build networks and receive/offer advice from experts and peers on sustainability projects.

  • Foundation course participants can attend as many sustainable healthcare cafes as they wish to. 
  • Technical course participants will be invited to a follow up session specifically linked to the workshop.

 

"I highly recommend the CSH courses. As someone who was interested in environmental sustainability but unsure how to incorporate this into my professional practice, I found it to be a great source of information (and inspiration!). A knowledgeable faculty provide real-life examples of how sustainability projects can improve the NHS for patients and the environment. The courses also provide a fantastic opportunity to network with other like-minded health care professionals (when one can sometimes feel like a ‘lone voice’ within a department!)"

Book a course with peace of mind:  If you are unable to attend your workshop, we can offer you a later date for no charge.  If you need to cancel, full refunds can be offered up to 3 weeks before the workshop date (admin fee of £30). 

Interested in our courses but not able to join us? Please let us know why as this helps us address barriers to our training here. 

Courses

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare

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This foundation course offers an overview of the relationship between health, the health sector and the climate and ecological crises. How is the health system both vulnerable to and contributing to climate change and ecological degradation? What would a sustainable health system look like? What might the wider benefits be and how can we achieve this?

 

  • Workshop: 4 March (Fri) 12.00-16.00
    • Self-study period opens: 11 February 
  • Workshop: 4 May (Wed) 08.00-12.00 
    • Self-study period opens: 13 April 

£95 - £165 + VAT | Learn more

Sustainable Primary Care

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This foundation course is specifically tailored for healthcare staff working in primary care at all levels. It offers an overview of the relationship between health, the health sector and the climate and ecological crises. How is the health system both vulnerable to and contributing to climate change and ecological degradation? What would a sustainable health system look like? What might the wider benefits be and how can we achieve this? The course also highlights the leadership role healthcare staff can play in providing healthcare for all within planetary boundaries.   

  • Workshop: Tuesday 25 January  13.00-17.00
    • Self-study period opens: 4 January (Tue)

£95 - £165 + VAT | Learn more

Sustainable Mental Healthcare

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This foundation course is specifically tailored to health and social care staff working in mental health. It offers an overview of the relationship between health, the health sector and the climate and ecological crises; explains how the health system is both vulnerable to and contributing to climate change and ecological degradation; explores what a sustainable mental health system looks like, what the wider benefits could be and how we might achieve this. The course also highlights the leadership role mental health professionals can play in providing healthcare for all within planetary boundaries.   

  • Workshop: 13 January (Thu) 13.00-17.00
    • Self-study period opens: 23 December 
       
  • Workshop: 21 June (Tue) 13.00-17.00 
    • Self-study period opens: 31 May

£95 - £165 + VAT | Learn more

Sustainable Dentistry

This foundation course is specifically tailored for dental care professionals and support staff in primary and secondary care. It offers an overview of the relationship between dentistry, health, and the climate and ecological crises. How are dentistry and healthcare both vulnerable to and contributing to climate change and ecological degradation? What would sustainable dentistry look like? What might the wider benefits be and how can we achieve this? 

  • Workshop: 26 May (Thu) 12.00-16.00
    • Self-study period opens: 5 May 
       

£95 - £165 + VAT | Learn more

Public Health Leadership for Sustainability

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This interactive foundation course equips public health professionals with leadership skills for environmental sustainability within and outside the health and care sector. The course provides an overview of the relationship between public health, the health sector and the climate and ecological crises. How is the health system both vulnerable to and contributing to climate change and ecological degradation? What would a sustainable health system look like? What might the wider public health benefits be and how can we achieve this?

 

  • Workshop: 17 March 2022 (Thu) 13.00-17.00
    • Self-study period opens: 24 February (Thu)

£95 - £165 + VAT | Learn more

Green Space and Health

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Green space contributes to physical and mental wellbeing and offers therapeutic benefits for recovery from illness. This foundation course explores the evidence and illustrates how you can integrate these into your own practice. The course is intended for health and social care professionals in primary, secondary or social care, including those working in mental health and rehabilitation and those who want to improve staff wellbeing in any setting.  

  • Workshop: 25 January (Tue) 10.00-14.00 ​
    • Self-study period opens: 04 January

£95 - £165 + VAT |  Learn more

Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare

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This carbon footprinting course will help health professionals, quality improvement leads and medical students to become carbon literate. You will gain an understanding of what a carbon footprint is, how it can be used in the NHS’s endeavour to go net zero and how it is measured.

  • Workshop: 20 January (Thur) 9.00-13.00
    • Self-study period opens: 30 December 
    • Work-in-progress session: 5 April (Tue) 9.00-11.00
       
  • Workshop: 10 May (Tue) 13.00-17.00​
    • Self-study period opens: 19 April
    • Work-in-progress session: 23 August (Tue) 13.00-15.00

£150 - £190 + VAT | Learn more

Sustainable Quality Improvement

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This intensive course introduces health professionals and educators to the concept of ‘sustainable value’ and the ‘SusQI’ framework for integrating sustainability into quality improvement. 

  • Workshop: 26 January (Wed) 09.00-13.00: 
    • Self-study period opens: 5 January (Wed)
    • Work-in-progress workshop: 10 March (Thu) 09.30-11.30

£150 - £190 + VAT | Learn more

Teaching Sustainable Quality Improvement

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This course uses the ‘SusQI’ framework, to help health professions educators and students to integrate sustainability concepts into mainstream quality improvement teaching.

  • Workshop: 8 December (Wed) 13.00-17.00
    • Self-study period opens: 17 November (Wed)
       
  • Workshop: 1 February (Tue) 9.00-13.00
    • Self-study period opens: 11 January

£150 - £190 + VAT (discount price of £70 + VAT for educators) | Learn more