According to research by the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, over 3 billion pieces of personal protective equipment were used between February and August 2020, resulting in over 106,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents.
We're excited to announce that the recording and learning resources are now live on our website, for the first of our Connecting Q locally virtual events, "
Spring is right around the corner! What better way to start the season of new beginnings and growth, than with the release of our two brand new courses, Sustainable Dentistry and Sustainable Primary Care!
Calling all surgical healthcare professionals! Would you like to get involved in transforming surgical practice to become less harmful to the environment and more socially sustainable?
"Our education system routinely fails to educate, prepare and equip us for the climate emergency and ecological crisis. The majority of teaching and learning is misaligned from the systemic changes
Donal was introduced to us in 2008, early in the life of our charity, and was immediately supportive of the new ideas we put on the table. He became one of the first champions of sustainable healthcare and continued to support green nephrology and The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare all through the years.
2020 has certainly been a year for the books with devastating bushfires, police brutality and, of course, the direct and many indirect health effects of the global pandemic. But some good has come out of the bad: