World Health Day 2024 is a day dedicated to global health awareness under the sponsorship of the World Health Organisation. Celebrated every year on the 7th April. The theme for this year is 'My Health, My Right(link is external)', a theme chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as thinking about the wider issues of the right to access safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions and freedom from discrimination.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) has partnered with KitNewCare to make kidney care more sustainable as part of the European Union’s key funding programme for Innovation and research to tackle climate change.
This spring, we are delighted to welcome colleagues from North East London Integrated Care System, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to our growing comm
In September 2023, Northampton General Hospital (NGH) NHS Trust commenced a Green Team Competition in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The competition has brought anticipated annual savings to the Trust of £252,864 & 40,172 kgCO2e. This is the carbon footprint equivalent of driving 118,641 miles in an average car (or 174.5 return trips between Northampton & Glasgow).
In September 2023, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH) commenced a Green Team Competition in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The competition has brought anticipated annual savings to the Trust of £85,712 and 34,008 kgCO2e. This is the carbon footprint equivalent of driving 100,437 miles in an average car (or 218 return trips between Sheffield and Brighton).
The Secretary of State for Envioronment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Barclay, has made recent announcements on increasing public access to nature, including publishing a new Woodland Acce
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare's NHS Forest project is proud to have worked alongside American Forests, the US non-profit organisation that created Tree Equity Score and the Woodland Trust to bring the Tree Equity Score to the UK. This is a pioneering programme to ensure that developers have the tools and resources they need to calculate tree density in urban areas and help them to plan for the future, ensuring that there are enough trees to provide show a net positive impact on the health and wellbeing of local communities.
