The University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust have planted over 12,000 trees as part of the creation of a new hospital site.
Healthcare practitioners from Frithwood Surgery have created greenspace and designed a health walk from the GP surgery through the village demonstrating the practice’s commitment to the health and wellbeing of their staff, patients and the local community.
Capita CMS has sponsored 35 trees which have been planted at the Countess of Cheshire Country Park. The trees were planted on the Countess Health Park, to the rear of the main Staff Car Park and all have burst into bud already!
The Countess of Cheshire Country Park has seen the planting of over 2000 trees as part of the project.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust launched their Grow Your Own Project on NHS Sustainability Day. The project will provide organic produce to 131 service users on their Guild Park Site. As part of their recovery process, 33 service users will be given the opportunity to develop their cooking skills using produce from the garden. The scheme has already supplied the new self-catering Step down Unit (SDU) with local, seasonal and fresh vegetables and fruit. This has been a great success and has been achieved entirely through staff volunteering their spare time.
Healthcare without Harm Europe and The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare are pleased to invite you to the 2013 conference in Oxford, UK where you can share problems and solutions with 450 others working on the interface between health and the environment.
CleanMed is a great place for sustainability leaders and healthcare innovators to find new ways to inspire their organisations, learn practical ways to make changes and contribute to international understanding of sustainable healthcare.
The Great Outdoor Gym Company Ltd (TGO) has sponsored the planting of 450 trees with over 200 of which being planted for NHS Sustainability Day as part of their on going commitment of planting one tree for every one of their British made outdoor gym pieces sold. TGO’s gyms have proven to have preventative health benefits getting new people into sustained activity in an environmentally friendly way and so there is a natural fit with Sustainable healthcare.
On NHS Sustainability Day of Action, 28th March 2013, hundreds of trees were planted across 23 hospital sites as part of the NHS Forest Scheme.
The NHS Forest is taking part in NHS Sustainability Day on the 28th March 2013 running our campaign planting 2 trees at 2pm which was very successful in 2012. We already have a number of NHS Forest sites keen to get involved and are able to provide whips from our tree sponsorship scheme to all trusts interested in taking part. We have so far 25 trusts who have registered to do some tree planting on the day with some planting over 100 trees.
Children from Bardwell's School council and Year 5 at Longfields Primary School braved the cold weather to plant 18 lime trees as part of the NHS Forest at the Horton hospital. The children took part in digging the hole, preparing the ground with bark cuttings and fixing the ties on the trees. Each child had a tree named after them. Children also took part in a site quiz and learnt lots of interesting tree facts. A good morning was had by all.
On 7th March 2013 at 12.30pm the NHS Forest Green Gym, Cirencester Hospital received £700 from Cirencester College’s National Citizenship Service (NCS) students. On the day the students helped members of the Green Gym to decide what improvements to make to Querns Woods with the money they raised.
The students raised £700 for the Green Gym by holding a charity auction as part of their National Citizen Service in 2012.
