The RCP has become the first royal college to receive the Carbon Trust Standard certification, in recognition of its commitment to sustainable working.
The RCP will today, alongside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European groups representing patients, researchers and the healthcare industry, attend the launch of The Value of Health: Improving Outcomes multi-stakeholder initiative report at the European Parliament in Brussels.
The RCP has launched a new animated video outlining the impact the NHS has on the environment, and how health professionals can incorporate sustainability in their work.
'Improving air quality', a joint report from four select committees published today, calls for a new clean air act, a clean air fund and a national air quality support programme.
Our Future Health is a year-long project from the RCP that will explore the challenges facing doctors and patients in 2018 through podcasts, debates, surveys and events.
Following the release of the UK government's 'Health impacts of all pollution – what do we know?', RCP president Professor Jane Dacre called its recommendation for health impacts of pollution to be included in all curricula for clinicians in training 'a notably progressive move'.
The RCP has joined European and global hospital and healthcare organisations in signing the ‘Healthcare Call to Action on Climate Change' ahead of the UN Climate Negotiations, taking place in November in Bonn, Germany.
In support of NHS Sustainability Day, the RCP highlights how healthcare sustainibility has become synonymous with money and how some simple changes could reap large environmental rewards.
