Document / File:
Saving Carbon Improving Health: NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 14/04/2009 - 11:43
"Climate change and the NHS" slide pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Mon, 16/03/2009 - 12:39
"Mitigation and Health Improvement" Slide Pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 23/01/2009 - 13:06
Coming Round to Recycling (medical student project report)
by Frances Mortimer | Sun, 31/05/2009 - 11:22Journal name:
British Medical Journal
Volume & page reference:
338:b609
Publication date:
10 Mar 2009
Resource type:
analysis article
Brief description:
Report from a project undertaken by medical student David Hutchins at Brighton and Sussex Medical School:
"An audit of anaesthetic waste at our hospital found that about 40% of all waste (roughly 950 kg/theatre/year) was potentially recyclable paper, card, plastic, and glass, and only 4% by weight of sharps bin contents was true sharp waste. Although recycling has potential environmental and financial benefits, it is hampered by convenience, technology, lack of knowledge, concerns about environmental safety, and statutory regulation. We discuss how clinicians might cut the amount of waste they produce by reducing, reusing, and recycling resources and suggest ideas for future research."
DOI Doc Object Identifier :
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1136/bmj.b609
Recycling of Hospital Waste (medical student project report)
by Frances Mortimer | Sun, 31/05/2009 - 11:17"Public Health Goes Green" Plymouth CPD event
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 24/04/2009 - 13:34Published by:
Peninsula Teaching Public Health Network
Publication date:
19 Mar 2008
Resource type:
web archive of CPD event
Brief description:
Download presentations and video webcast on: Building sustainable communities, Climate and health, Environment Agency flood risk management, Health and transport, HPA climate change, Waste management
External URL:
Health and Wealth in the 21st Century
A public health debate which began at the UKPHA 17th Annual Forum in March 2009.
At the UK Public Health Association's 17th Annual Forum on 26 March 2009, the UKPHA Health and Sustainable Development Action Group hosted a workshop "Health and Wealth in the 21st Century - what role will public health play?"
A sustainable community?
How will we create communities with a focus on people - their contentment, wellbeing, resilience and fulfilment? Will it be possible within current economic systems and the impacts of climate change? What role should public health play? Speakers William Bird (Natural England), Anna Coote (New Economics Foundation) and Jonathan Harris (DH East Mids) kicked off discussion. As a society, can we shift our measures of success from those of economic growth and life expectancy to the more complex but important wellbeing? And how do we measure this?
This connection has been set up to share insights from the workshop and to invite continuing debate on this important area of policy development - please visit the opinion and discussion pages, and give your views!
