The NHS Forest held its first annual event to mark the success of its project to plant 1.3m trees across the UK, one for every employee in the NHS, and create a ‘Natural Health Service’.
Ian Higgins, Environmental Project Manager at Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust has researched the feasibility of the NHS Forest for his Masters Dissertation. Acquiring/ twinning with nearby greenspace to achieve the planting target of 1.3 million trees and the evidence demonstrating the healing qualities and environmental benefits of trees were outcomes of the research. For more details of the research please see our evidence section http://www.nhsforest.org/evidence
The NHS Forest is holding the first annual event to celebrate the successes of the past year. We will be holding a workshop to discuss, with existing sites and delivery partners, how to set up and run an NHS Forest. An awards ceremony will be held with Pam Warhurst, Chair of the Forestry Commission presenting the awards.The celebrations will be held on the 25th October at University Hospital, Coventry. If you would like to attend please email sarah.dandy@sustainablehealthcare.org
The NHS Forest is holding the first annual event to celebrate the successes of the past year. We will be holding a workshop to discuss, with existing sites and delivery partners, how to set up and run an NHS Forest. An awards ceremony will be held with Pam Warhurst, Chair of the Forestry Commission presenting the awards.The celebrations will be held on the 25th October at University Hospital, Coventry. If you would like to attend please email sarah.dandy@sustainablehealthcare.org
Rachel is pitching for us to raise funds for a part of the Green Nephrology work – retrofitting heat exchangers to dialysis machines. The email below explains that there a further funding available to the project that gets the most votes, and there’s a button to press to vote so it’s easy. Just follow the web link below for more information about the project and to cast your vote.
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The NHS Forest in Cornwall has been shortlisted for an HSJ award, the application included the existing work and the vision for the region as a whole. The NHS Forest at Falmouth Community Hospital involved the creation of greenspace for staff, patients and the local community to enjoy for rest and relaxation. Penryn school children also use this space as a green classroom. The vision for the region is to involve schools in St Austell, Falmouth and Truro in creating greenspace in their local hopsitals and linking this, through green corridors to other areas of greenspace in each area.
We are delighted to announce that the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham has just been chosen as a winner in the International Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice for their NHS Forest project. For more detail about their NHS Forest site please use our Map- tree locator.
The Department of Health have just produced their physical activity guidelines. Our NHS Forest sites provide increased access to greenspace for gentle exercise for staff, patients and the local community helping more people to be active on a regular basis. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publicati...
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