This week is Greener Nursing and Midwifery Week

March 21, 2024

Greener Nursing and Midwifery Week aims to raise awareness of how we can become a more sustainable and greener organisation.

Join Green Impact in 2024 and create positive changes in your workplace: Are you interested in creating positive changes in your area of work and supporting our Trust in becoming a leading sustainable healthcare provider? If so, why not join our ‘Green Impact’ programme where colleagues work together in teams to complete simple, everyday actions. Click here to find out more.

Free e-learning module available:  ‘Building a Net Zero NHS’ is an e-learning for health module accessed via your ESR login. Go to learner home page and search the course catalogue for “Net Zero ”It is designed to raise awareness of the climate and ecological emergency, why it matters our health, and how healthcare contributes to it. Learners will hear how changing their clinical practices can reduce carbon, costs and waste while improving quality of care. It’s free and only takes 30 minutes to complete (great to add to the CV).  If you complete the course by Sunday 31 March, you could be eligible for a prize (via a prize draw). Just send a screenshot to  francesca.silcocks@nhs.net to show you have completed it.

Interested in joining the National Nursing and Midwifery Sustainability Network? You can do so now by scanning the QR code below.