Understand how healthcare impacts the environment and gain the skills to drive sustainable change within your healthcare setting. Discover the importance of sustainability in healthcare. Though healthcare systems play a vital role in society, they also have a considerable environmental impact. As we face the climate crisis, we must identify ways to reduce this impact. On this three-week course, you’ll discover how healthcare systems negatively affect the environment and what you can do in your healthcare setting to mitigate this. With this understanding, you’ll gain skills to promote sustainability and improve the health of your patients and the planet.
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Unpack the environmental impacts of healthcare systems
Healthcare consumes a considerable amount of energy, material, and water, and is one of the largest producers of waste and pollutants.
On the course, you’ll understand the impacts of health practices on ecosystems and how we can work as part of an interdisciplinary team to reduce these negative effects.
Explore the NHS carbon footprint
Next, discover how the NHS in England accounts for 25% of public sector CO2 emissions and delve further into the causes of this, such as procurement, utilisation, and waste.
You’ll then gain practical knowledge to help you take steps in identifying sustainability opportunities, networking and communication, and QI methodology.
Learn from the experts at University College London
Finally, you’ll explore current innovative models and case studies, both nationally and internationally, to gain a global perspective on sustainable healthcare.
Guided by the experts at University College London, you’ll finish the course with the skills and knowledge to deliver sustainable solutions in your healthcare setting.
Syllabus
Week 1: Educate
Week 2: Engage
Week 3: Empower
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
Discuss the vital importance of planetary healthcare and sustainable healthcare
Describe the urgency of the Climate Crisis
Engage with frameworks for creating behaviour change projects
Apply knowledge and skills acquired to undertake your own impactful sustainability projects
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for healthcare professionals at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
This includes community and hospital doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, healthcare workers, and more.
