The UK Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) commissioned The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to produce guidance for action on climate change mitigation for Public Health England’s All Our Health programme, which supports health and care workers, emergency services and the wider public health workforce to prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing.
CSH is recruiting two new Nature Recovery Rangers, to be based at hospitals in Newcastle and in Homerton, East London. In 2021, we began embedding Nature Recovery Rangers to develop programmes of green space activities and community engagement at specific NHS sites. To find out more about the rangers and what they do, watch our short Nature Recovery Rangers video.
We are looking for a dynamic new team member with healthcare leadership experience to contribute to our work supporting the integration of sustainability into healthcare organisations. The Sustainability in Quality Improvement (QI) Programme Lead will help to accelerate the adoption of sustainable healthcare as a core dimension of healthcare management and practice while working for an organisation that is at the forefront of transformational change in the field of sustainable healthcare.
This year, five teams from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHT Trust participated in the Green Ward Competition, a clinical leadership and engagement programme for NHS Trusts to improve their sustainability within their service.
We are pleased to announce that registration for our next Connecting Q Locally webinar events is now open. Join us and our inspiring panelists as we discuss how to embed sustainability into quality improvement education, training, and practice.
This is an exciting senior role for an environmentally committed manager who can take strategic oversight of our Green Space programme and provide effective management of the project and its staff.
We are looking for a dynamic individual with leadership and management experience to contribute to our work supporting the integration of sustainability into healthcare organisations. The appointee will lead and manage CSH’s Clinical Transformation Programme, helping to accelerate the adoption of sustainable healthcare as a core dimension of healthcare management and practice.
CSH is seeking to appoint a qualified health professional to an Education Fellowship, working on a project to support the inclusion of sustainability in quality improvement education for undergraduate medical students, postgraduate doctors and other health professionals. You will take over from the 2021-2 Education Fellow, working on our ‘Sustainability in QI Education’ project.
Writing on the winter solstice here in the UK, the shortest day of the year - truly mid-winter. And then tomorrow the light will start to take over the darkness and spring will be on the way! 2021 has brought us growth and many positive things.
This year, five surgical teams from around the UK competed in the first-ever 'Green Surgery Challenge'. Through the challenge they have effectively reduced the carbon footprint of surgery by creating new devices, streamlining procedures, switching to reusable equipment, and altering the type of anaesthetic used for certain operations.
