Courses

 The course is intended as an overview of the field for primary care staff at any level who are new to sustainable healthcare. The training will help you to understand why sustainability matters, then help you to ‘green’ your practice using case studies from primary care, and offering tips and tricks for implementing sustainability improvements. The foundation courses also lay the groundwork for developing your skills further in the technical courses.

Please select one date:

• Workshop: Wednesday 7 May 2025 [9.00-13.00 BST]

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This course explains how dentistry contributes to climate change and ecological degradation, and helps dental care professionals and support staff in primary and secondary care to apply sustainable practices in their work. It offers an overview of the relationship between dentistry, health, and the climate crisis. 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? The course also highlights the leadership role dental staff can play in providing care for all within planetary boundaries. 

Please select one date:

• Workshop: Tuesday 21 January 2025 [9.00-13.00 GMT]
  • Self-study period opens: 24 December
     

£100 - £250 + VAT | Learn more

This foundation course offers an overview of the relationship between human health and the climate and ecological crises, with a focus on anaesthetics and the operating department.  It demonstrates how the health system is vulnerable to, but also contributes to, climate change and ecological degradation, examines the specific contribution of anaesthetics to carbon emissions and other environmental impacts and explores how to develop a more sustainable approach to the practice of anaesthetics and the operating department, whilst maintaining or improving quality of care.

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Please select one date:

• Workshop: Thursday 21 November 2024 [13.00-17.00 GMT]
  • Self-study period opens: 24 October 2024

• Workshop: Wednesday 23 April 2025 [13.00-17.00 BST]
   

£100 - £250 + VAT | Learn more

This foundation course will explore the impacts of climate change on the health and wellbeing of children, on the running of services and considers how services may be contributing to the problem. We will outline a comprehensive vision of a system of care and an education plan that will maximise children’s opportunities to thrive and also allows the ecosystems which support them to flourish. Participants are invited to consider how the principles of sustainability can be applied in their settings, using a mix of theory and case examples. The workshop and ongoing support through the cafes will then support participants to develop and implement sustainability projects.

Please select one date:

• Workshop: Wednesday 6 November 2024 [9.00-13.00 GMT]
  • Self study period opens: 9 October 2024

£100 - £250 + VAT | Learn more

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?

Please select one date:

• Workshop: Wednesday 11 December 2024 [9.00-13.00 GMT]
  • Self-study period opens: 13 November 2024

• Workshop: Wednesday 19 March 2025 [9.00-13.00 GMT]
   

£100 - £250 + VAT | Learn more

This carbon footprinting course is for health professionals and quality improvement leads. It offers an understanding of what a carbon footprint is, how it can be used in the health sector's endeavour to go net zero and how it is measured.

Please choose one date:

• Workshop: Thursday 7 November 2024 [9.00-13.00 GMT]​
  • Self-study period opens: 10 October 2024

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£150 - £350 + VAT | Learn more

After completing the Sustainablility in Quality Improvement course, academic and clinical educators can join this mini-course to practice integrating sustainability concepts into mainstream quality improvement teaching.

Please select one date:

• Workshop: Thursday 16 January 2025 [9.00-11.30 GMT]
   
• Workshop: Wednesday 12 March 2025 [14.00-16.30 GMT]
   
• Workshop: Thursday 22 May 2025 [9.00-11.30 BST]
   

£100+ VAT | Learn more