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School children help raise funds for tree planting at Northwick Park
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-06-24 12:21

School children from Mount Steward Primary School have been busy designing posters to gain sponsorship for trees to be planted at Northwick Park Hospital. They will be displaying their posters around the hospital in the hope that it will encourage staff, patients and the local community to sponsor the trees and increase the greenspace on site. Charles Hurford, a radiographer and sustainabiltiy champion at the trust has been instrumental in managing this project.
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Forests are key for Global Food Security and Nutrition!
Published by sarah on Wed, 2013-06-12 09:59

The latest FAO conference on Food Security and Nutrition from the 13-15th May had a number of key messages which fit very much with the aims of the NHS Forest.
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The CleanMed Conference Programme is now available!
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-06-03 11:15

It is too early to say, but we know that focusing on sustainability helps us achieve better quality with fewer resources. We know there are many good examples out there and CleanMed Europe 2013 will assess what we can achieve if we:
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University Hospital of North Staffordshire plants over 12,000 trees for the NHS Forest
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-05-20 09:54

The University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust have planted over 12,000 trees as part of the creation of a new hospital site.
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Launch of NHS Forest and health walk at Frithwood Surgery
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-05-13 15:01

The NHS Forest site at Frithwood Surgery is celebrating the planting of trees with a health walk on the 15^th May 2013.

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.
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Capita CMS plants 35 trees for the NHS Forest at the Countess of Cheshire Country Park
Published by sarah on Wed, 2013-05-08 10:00

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.
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Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust launch Grow Your Own project
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-04-29 20:12

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.
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CleanMed Conference on Sustainable Healthcare and Greenspace- Register Now!
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-04-22 20:26

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.
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Great Outdoor Gym Company sponsor a further 450 NHS Forest trees
Published by sarah on Mon, 2013-04-15 14:01

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.
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Fantastic number of NHS Forest sites plant trees as part of NHS Sustainability Day of Action
Published by sarah on Wed, 2013-04-03 20:01

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.
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