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🌍💚 Monday, 8th July 2024 marks the NHS #SustainabilityDayofAction! The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is proud to highlight the NHS’s dedication to a greener future and the critical role of sustainability in health services. This day offers a unique opportunity to learn about innovative strategies to reduce our environmental impact while delivering quality healthcare. With a pioneering target of Net Zero for direct carbon emissions by 2040 and indirect emissions by 2045, the NHS is leading the way. Achieving this goal requires the collaboration of all healthcare professionals, suppliers, and partners. Over the past year, numerous NHS employees have made significant strides in improving the sustainability of their practices, conserving resources, and maintaining high-quality care. Some key initiatives from CSH in the first half of 2024 include: 👉 Medicine Waste in Care Homes: This project, funded by The Health Foundation #QExchange project, aims to reduce social and environmental impacts by collaborating with care home staff, GPs, and pharmacies to measure and minimise medicine waste. 👉Maternity Care Sustainability: Partnering with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG, The Royal College of Midwives (RCM), and the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition, CSH is developing interventions to enhance the social and environmental sustainability of maternity care. 👉Nursing and Midwifery Sustainability Manifesto: In collaboration with The Queen's Nursing Institute, this manifesto outlines a vision for a climate-resilient, sustainable, equitable, and patient-centred healthcare system. Thank you to all who encourage sustainable practices and implement impactful initiatives. Your efforts are vital in shaping a healthier, more sustainable future. For more information on these initiatives and to get involved, read the full article linked in the comments below. Sustainability Partnerships

People accessing the healthcare journey increasingly want to be active partners in their care and have a voice in healthcare decisions. So how is a digital healthcare solution developed in Melbourne addressing that and giving a voice to patients about their needs? A National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) supported project team has developed a novel web-based tool – a digital health passport - that enables people to capture their needs and preferences once, and that information will travel with them across health services, improving the personalised nature of care they receive. This breakthrough co-designed digital intervention received very positive feedback during testing by clinicians and clinical areas at Peninsula Health and importantly 27 healthcare consumers and their support people, including those living with disability and/or complex needs. Arising from seed funding from NCHA, it’s a great example of how investment in quality research, new health tools and approaches can help deliver tangible change for consumers.   Rebecca Barnden, the Health Passport Project Lead, says the next exciting step is to explore possibilities to scale up the intervention across Victorian health services. Read more about Rebecca's project https://lnkd.in/gH3HiTeF Find out more about our Living Labs projects at ncha.org.au. Rebecca Barnden Michelle Bult Taryn Sheehy Velandai Srikanth Lily Chisholm Anna Mudigdo Tracy Parish Peninsula Health Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University Monash University Steve Pearce Jessica Mills Kylie Sprague Nadine Andrew Australian Ageing Agenda Rachel Carbonell Robyn Riley Henrietta Cook Erin Mathews Eli Dance Ali

#snsinstitutions #snsdesignthinkers #snsdesignthinking Health and Care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training, and other health professions all constitute health care. The term includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, and public health. Access to healthcare may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions and health policies. Providing health care services means "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes". Factors to consider in terms of healthcare access include financial limitations (such as insurance coverage), geographical and logistical barriers (such as additional transportation costs and the ability to take paid time off work to use such services), sociocultural expectations, and personal limitations (lack of ability to communicate with health care providers, poor health literacy, low income).Limitations to health care services affect negatively the use of medical services, the efficacy of treatments, and overall outcome (well-being, mortality rates).

🏥 The success of Second-Generation #healthposts cannot be achieved without the continuous #capacity building of #healthcare providers to fully respond to common and life-threatening #healthcare issues faced at #primaryhealthcare level. 👩🏽⚕️ Healthpost #nurses and #midwives are equipped with skills in basic emergency obstetrics and newborn care (#BEmONC), integrated management of childhood illness (#IMCI), business management, and #entrepreneurship skills, among others to ensure their confident to provide high-quality, patient centered care to the #communities they serve. 🤝 #Empowering healthcare providers at the #primaryhealthcare level contributes to the broader goal of strengthening #healthsystems and achieving #universalhealthcoverage by ensuring the wide range of services, provided at #healthposts including #maternity care, #laboratory tests, #dental care, and #ophthalmology are efficiently and effectively utilized for long-term viability. 💰 Investing in #healthcare providers is not just about enhancing individual skills but re-enforcing our strong commitment to creating #healthier populations and more resilient #communities. #sdg2030 #uhc #phc #ppcp #Africa #Rwanda

Bad for rural health: #healthcare #health #medicine #healthdata #data #healthcareinnovation #datawarehouse #ai #datascience #machinelearning #datacleaning #doctors #nurses #patients #clinicians #healthcareit

What is the Role of Women in Healthcare Industry? https://shorturl.at/RN7jZ Women are the backbone of the healthcare profession, and they make important contributions as nurses, doctors, researchers, and leaders. Explore how compassion and innovation are shaping the future of healthcare. #WomenInHealthcare #HealthcareHeroes #WomenInMedicine #HealthcareLeadership #Nurses #TWA #TheWomenAchiever

Pursuasive evidence to start up or in some cases sustain midwifery must come via multiple stakeholders. Today’s search provided this pearl of support for midwifery integration in the US workforce. 👉Did you know in April the American Hospital Association submitted a statement to the Senate HELP Committee VALUING the funding and need for midwives? https://lnkd.in/gEd_fgyk “The AHA appreciates that Congress provided funding for several initiatives to increase diversity: Maternity Care Target Areas: $8,000,000, an increase of $3,000,000, to support loan repayment and scholarships for maternity care services in health professional shortage areas. Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students: Midwife Training: $5,000,000 to support grants to educate midwives to address the national shortage of maternity care providers. Certified Nurse Midwives: $8,000,000 to grow and diversify the maternal and perinatal nursing workforce by increasing and diversifying the number of Certified Nurse Midwives with a focus on practitioners working in rural and underserved communities.” This is IMPORTANT! The AHA statement addressing need for midwives can assist in discussions with unsupportive C-Suite leaders. The statement to advance health in America regarding the place where 98% of births occur is a clear endorsement of the organizations belief on the need and safety of midwifery-led care. https://lnkd.in/gUkfqmvX For midwives facing potential closure of their hospital-based practice, For midwives arguing to be granted hospital privileges, For midwives seeking to start a hospital-based service and need to pitch the case… 👉The AHA endorsement should be in your arsenal of resources. #GrowMidwives #scalingupandsustainingmidwifery #heretohelp

Interesting Article! #healthcare #mplthealthcare #mpltway #Nalto #Staffing #locumstenes #locums #pediatrics #pediatricians #Pediatriccare #medicine #doctor #doctors #pediatrician

Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Health Service Research Grants 2024 have been announced https://lnkd.in/gtzfK-gb A/Professor Deborah Fox will lead a team of co-investigators including Helen Barrett, Andrew Bisits, Sze-Yuan Ooi, Nigel Lovell, jennifer fenwick, Jason Prior, Vanessa Scarf, Kris Rogers, Lisa Hinton with AIs Heike Roth, Laura Marsh Helen Malone, Emily Callander, Edgar Liu and Sarah Murray.      Virtual Maternity Ward for Women with Pregnancy Complications includes partners from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), University of New South Wales (UNSW Medicine & Health), South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Royal Hospital for Women and University of Oxford. This #innovation combines #telemonitoring, #telehealth, and #midwifery home visits to provide care for women with high-risk pregnancies, allowing them to receive treatment at home. By addressing the social and mental health challenges of extended hospital stays, the project offers a more supportive and patient-centred approach to care. The project also stands out for its strong focus on consumer involvement, with consumers included as investigators, ensuring the program remains firmly centred on the needs of patients. Funding for this project may also depend on the outcome of the NHMRC Collaborations in Health Service Research Grant 2024, with results expected by the end of Q1 2025, where this project was one of five within a larger submission with collaborators in Clinical Themes and Platforms across the partnership and beyond. Research without borders for greatest impact is a priority at SPHERE.