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How to Drive Sustainable Healthcare: Educate, Engage, and Empower
UCL (University College London)
  • Start Date: 29 Jan, 2024
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Understand how healthcare impacts the environment and gain the skills to drive sustainable change within your healthcare setting.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

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.


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.


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.


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    • UCL (University College London)

      UCL was founded in 1826. It was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine.

      UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected by performance in a range of international rankings and tables. UCL currently has over 35,000 students from 150 countries and over 11,000 staff. UCL’s annual income is more than £1 billion.

       

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