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The Real Cost of Healthcare

At the recent Cleanmed conference in Oxford, we were shocked to hear how surgical instruments used in the NHS are regularly made in terrible working conditions in Pakistan and other developing countries, including by children as young as seven. Mahmood Bhutta, an ENT Surgeon and co-founder of the BMA Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group, […]

Is the climate debate sterile?

A meeting of the Climate Psychology Alliance discusses the “fertile and sterile dialogue in the climate change debate’, with presentations by Patrick Chalmers (author of Fraudcast News) and Jamie Clarke (Director, COIN). Film coverage in London in November 2013 by the Hedgerley Wood Channel.

Healthy Planet Healthy People

Medical student, Isobel Braithwaite, sets out to discover the impact – for good and ill – of the natural world on human health. The first surprise is the difference that the view from your hospital window can make to your speed of recovery… Healthy Planet Healthy People is a 2013 documentary made with the support […]

Climate Health Check

Just how bad is the climate change crisis and its impact on human health and the health of the planet? And what is the best way to get the message out about what can be done? At the 2013 CleanMed Conference in Oxford Prof. Hugh Montgomery brings his wide experience in the health service to […]

Greening the NHS

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in Oxford has been running a programme called NHS Forest. It promotes the planting of tens of thousands of trees around UK hospitals and clinics – showing how green spaces can promote wellbeing and shorter recovery times.

Saving the NHS £1 Billion?

That’s the surprising claim made in a film we’ve just completed for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in Oxford to be shown at next week’s CleanMed conference. They’ve been pioneering new initiatives in sustainability, starting with kidney treatments and extending to other specialties like mental health.

Saving Water

A great example of what can be done, put together by nephew David Turnbull in his house in Swanage. He’s installed two 500 litre tanks under his raised garage to collect water from the roof of the house. Then the water is fed automatically into the house for showers, washing machine etc.     It’s such […]