Upcoming events
UK Sustainability Days Calendar: This downloadable PDF file contains a summary of all the sustainability themed days or weeks of the UK calendar. These can be used to raise awareness and as a focus for activities. Specific resources for events are often available from each campaign’s site.
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The King’s Fund
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The UK has a population health emergency – an ageing society, stalling life expectancy, poor population health and increasing multimorbidity should provide a burning platform for further action on prevention.
Past Events
We are in the process of uploading past events to the website.
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2nd NHS Sustainable Solutions Conference: Building a Greener NHS
Estates & Facilities This event serves as a unique platform for healthcare leaders, policymakers, and sustainability experts to collaborate, share innovations, and tackle key challenges such as capital funding, emissions from healthcare operations, and sustainable infrastructure development. The conference is especially timely, as the NHS faces complex challenges—from reducing harmful nitrous oxide emissions in hospitals
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The future of sustainable healthcare
Sustainable healthcare still exists within silos. Be part of the conversation by joining this workshop at BMJ Future Health on 19th November and explore how to scale sustainability projects and empower staff to implement change in your workplace. This conference runs over 2 days in London Click here for tickets and more information
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Greener Practice Asthma Guidance Webinar
Our webinar on the new BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline, aimed at improving health outcomes with the added benefit of reducing inhaler environmental impact.
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Polypharmacy and the link with Net Zero
An excellent talk from Clare Howard, a pharmacist who is the lead for the RCGP RPS repeat prescribing toolkit, and the clinical lead for the Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme.
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Why teaching about planetary health through using cases makes sense
Dr Mike Tomson looks at some of the educational reasons that using cases might work for teaching planetary health
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Plants not pills
This short talk by Dr Kath Brown discusses use of plant based diets instead of medication for promoting and maintaining good health outcomes.
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RSPB Nature Prescriptions
Dr Deb Gompertz describes her project focussing on person centered care, proactive care, and collaborative working as well as changing practices with environmental impact.
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Plant based diet and Planetary Health
Dr Shireen Kassam, founder of Plant-based Health Professionals UK explains the benefits of plant-based diets for personal and planetary health.
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Medicines and the Environment
Sharon Pfleger NHS Highland Public Health Consultant agreed to speak to the National Greener Practice Group about the impact of medicines on the environment particularly their effect on our water.
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Win-win solutions: medical student involvement in delivering the Green Impact toolkit
Greener Practice South Yorkshire’s local focused on Sheffield Medical School’s Student Selected Component 4th year project, in which students spend a 6 week placement supporting practices to complete actions in the Green Impact for Health (GIfH) Toolkit.
