We are inviting evidence from mental health services, trusts & boards that demonstrate interventions initiated with the aim of delivering greener/ sustainable/ net zero mental health care to inform a report and resources. Read & submit by 11/04 here ➡️ ow.ly/VLru50Ne2bi

This looks like an excellent conference! If you have any work on sustainability in healthcare submit it to this!:

There's still time to book for our Environmental Sustainability in Clinical/Rehabilitation Engineering online event, taking place on 30 March, exploring actions to help reduce carbon footprints bit.ly/3JFbViE IPEM Environmental Sustainability

This sounds super interesting! 🌳

Afternoon Lightning Talks!⚡ 🕐 13.45 - 14.05 ⭐Estimating carbon footprint & heat recovery potential of linear accelerator cooling systems 🗣 Joshua Cartwright, Sustainability Fellow in Adult #Oncology, Newcastle Hospitals 📌 B61 SCoR Members BIR UKIOCongress #UKIO2023

This looks interesting!

Sharing: To help us understand what ‘climate resilience ‘means, how vulnerable communities on the front line prepare, what the risks for the NHS and how to prepare, we are joined by Mark Harvey & Emer O’Connell 14th July 14:00 Teams: Meeting ID: 357 380 699 511 Passcode: poH5SP

👀 Did you know #radonc? Our tx machines unintentionally release a potent #greenhousegas SF6 every day that is 23,000x worse than #CO2 🔍 We dug into the data & found the collective leakage from all tx machines 🌍 = 1 yr emissions from >14k cars 🚗💨 ...& its other #medtech too

This is a great example of what groups like ours can achieve. This work involved 4 members of our IPEM Environmental Sustainability group. 👏 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

This Zero Carbon Commuting Conference (Z3C) may be of interest to people: hopin.com/events/zc3-202… 🚴🚶

🟢Join us in shaping a sustainable future! Committed to our planet and healthcare's impact? 🌍Make a difference in radiation oncology. Collaborating with Physics Workshop 2023, we invite you to our webinar on Carbon Footprint in RT Centres. 🌿Register: bit.ly/3LhR6LO

A joint IPEM/RCR/SoR environmental sustainability group now exists. We are collating all the work that has been done to make RT more sustainable. If you have done a "Green" project in radiotherapy please share it here: forms.office.com/e/rqiQjxqM1N The Royal College of Radiologists SCoR Members

A very nice blog post from Sara Lightowlers on the recent BMJ Net Zero Clinical Care Conference 🍃. She also nicely introduces the new joint environmental sustainability group between IPEM, RCR and SoR. Well worth a read 👇

Another example of work done within this group and this time published in an IPEM journal (sciencedirect.com/journal/ipem-t…) 👍

🍃The joint RT Board (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, The Royal College of Radiologists and SCoR Members) environmental sustainability group has collected together green radiotherapy projects from across the UK. 📖Read it here: rcr.ac.uk/about-us/partn… If you know of others let us know!

Speaker highlights from #UKIO2024... @RobChuter will give a talk on climate change and its links with healthcare & #radiotherapy in a session on Environmental #sustainability in #oncology View the full programme and book your place at bit.ly/43rolnL Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

🎧 Its out now!

📆The radiotherapy board sustainability group (of which Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and IPEM Environmental Sustainability are a part) is helping to organise a free event in London (🖥️also available online) on the 18th June. More details and to book your place 👉 rcr.ac.uk/cpd-and-events…

REMINDER: 📆The radiotherapy board sustainability group (of which Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and IPEM Environmental Sustainability are a part) is helping to organise a FREE event in London (🖥️also available online) on the 18th June. For more information and to book your place: rcr.ac.uk/cpd-and-events…

🚨We have 6⃣ orals at #STEF24 on environmental sustainability! So come join us 9-10 Oct in London for a programme built around sustainable and ethical healthcare, AI and workforce and skills. 👉For more information and to book see here: ipem.ac.uk/what-s-on/ipem…