The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is delighted to announce it has bagged £4,000 from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme for a community and nature project in Blackbird Leys in Oxford.
The Sustainability Series offers a useful overview of numerous different specialities- so far we've featured sustainable mental health care, kidney care and the use of green spaces for health.
The Sustainability Series aims to inspire leadership within clinical specialties and empower you to produce practical change. To do this we are providing examples of how people succeeded in the pas
Reducing unnecessary daily blood tests, reducing pyjama paralysis and avoiding abundant paper use for processing patients are among the many projects co-designed by CSH at St.
We are still looking for a dynamic, creative and analytical Research and Communications Officer (volunteer position) to generate excitement and interest in the work of Centre for Sustainable Health
And they’re off! Another Green Ward Competition started on Thursday the 25th of May with three of the six teams attending workshops at University Hospital Southampton.
Financial and carbon pressures on NHS services heighten the need to find ways to improve health using less resource. There is already strong research evidence for a connection between access to the natural outdoors and the mental and physical health of individuals and populations.
On 2nd March CSH and the Ecosystems Knowledge Network delivered a Valuing Nature Programme event to ensure that tools and methods are available to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of addressing local health priorities through increased physical activity in the natural outdoors in the UK. The programme took diabetes as a focus and included: 1. Challenges in policy and practice 2. Learning from local health priorities and opportunities for improved access to the natural outdoors for the population of Birmingham 3. Future research priorities
It was an incredible day, chaired by Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer, and including presentations from academic health and environmental economists alongside public health and natural environment experts, and economists from Price Waterhouse with a huge amount of energy in the room. Tweets included: Will Evison @Will_Evison Mar 2 Brilliant multi-disciplinary effort today: #publichealth experts, env. & health economists banging heads together! @ValuingN @EcosystemsNet