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Sustainable Healthcare

What is “Sustainable Healthcare”?

A sustainable healthcare seeks to help patients with the things that matters, facilitates for clinicians to care for our patients, maximize medicines impact on the health and wellbeing of our communities, and does not waste societal and environmental resources.

This may seem obvious, but while most healthcare extends lives and reduces suffering, the way we currently practice medicine is unsustainable for patients, clinicians, health systems, societies and the planet.

Our vision is to create a platform for collaboration – permeated by generosity, curiosity and creativity –shaping a new appreciation of human, financial, and environmental resources in healthcare.

Learn more about us, read our vision, find out about our ongoing research projects, or check out or resources.

Or let us know what sustainable healthcare means to you – Are there important aspects of sustainability that we are missing? Can we join forces to advance sustainability of healthcare in your context?

Reach out to us!

Our vision is to create a platform for collaboration – permeated by generosity, curiosity and creativity –shaping a new appreciation of human, financial, and environmental resources in healthcare – join us!

New paper in The BMJ - Time Needed to Treat

Time Needed to Treat (TNT) is a new method to help us consider clinician time as a finite resource. Read the BMJ paper - or check out our TNT resources - maybe try them out and help us improve the concept.

New initiative to tackle medical excess in LMICs

Learn more about this new global group of >50 researchers, policy makers and clinicians from >20 countries, focused on exploring and mitigating medical excess in low- and middle-income countries.

Tune in to The Recovery podcast

Listen to people who have taken action for a more sustainable healthcare in this podcast hosted by Fiona Godlee and Ray Moynihan, co-produced by The BMJ and Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare

Evidence for deimplementation

Check out this series of special collections of Cochrane reviews that found evidence of limited benefit of the investigated interventions - and this collection on deprescribing

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