In September last year, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) commenced a Green Team Competition in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The competition has brought anticipated annual savings to the Trust of £284,098 and 4,797 kgCO2e. This is the carbon footprint equivalent of driving 14,167 miles in an average car (or 129 return trips between GOSH and Brighton).
The Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC), now in its fifth year, is a student-driven, metric-based initiative to inspire planetary health and education for sustainable healthcare in medical schools. There are metrics in five categories - curriculum, research, community outreach, student support and sustainability. CSH is highlighted on the PHRC resource page as an excellent education and resource provider that specialises in the integration of sustainable healthcare into teaching and practice.
It's Veganuary! The easiest time of the year to try a vegan diet and see how easy and delicious it is to eat in line with your climate commitments and compassionate values!
Action to tackle climate and ecological breakdown could improve the health, wellbeing, and standard of living for us all, but how exactly can tackling environmental issues help with societal health and social inequality? And how exactly can unions help with that? Following her talk for UNISON, Dr Hayley Pinto, Education and Training Lead here at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, is reflecting on the climate crisis and its links with sustainable healthcare.
The climate crisis has a direct, immediate health impact on all communities, and making healthcare more sustainable and bringing healthcare organisations and green initiatives together to reduce ca
As a way of monitoring progress many Trusts, ICBs and primary care teams are measuring and reporting on their direct emissions annually, using the BEIS Government Greenhouse Gas Conversion Factors for Company Reporting database. This database is updated yearly to reflect national changes in decarbonisation, with the most recent version published June 2023. But what does the most recent update mean for NHS organisations, and will there be any impact on their carbon footprint?
In April, the Chief AHP Officers team ran the first ever Greener AHP week, to galvanise the interest and enthusiasm of the Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) workforce to deliver environmentally sustainable healthcare as part of AHP roles. Environmental sustainability is one of the five areas of focus in AHPs Deliver, the national AHP strategy for England; it is also a priority within each of the four UK nations.
Clean Air Day is the UK's largest air pollution campaign. As one of the greatest public sector carbon emitters in the world, the healthcare sector will need to make significant reductions in order to meet its net zero carbon ambitions.
Genitourinary medicine (GUM) encompasses integrated sexual health, contraception, and HIV services. Emerging evidence demonstrates the profound effect climate change will have on GUM. Therefore it is our responsibility as clinicians to take preventative measures and transform the way we work now, in order to protect our future.
The NHS Sustainability Day of Action is quickly approaching. Over the past year, we have seen a growing number of NHS employees improve the sustainability of their practices, preserving resources for future generations while providing high-quality care.