Sustainable healthcare courses
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About our courses
Our courses are designed for people working in the health sector at any level including clinicians, managers, educators and others. They prepare you to implement sustainability projects in your workplace, conduct research and contribute to your organisation's Sustainability Strategy, Green or Decarbonisation Plan.
The courses are delivered in three parts:
- An interactive online learning package covering all background and theory, illustrated with real world case studies
- An online workshop where experts in the field help you develop ideas for applying theory to practice in your setting
- Online follow up sessions to help support your journey
Group bookings
Discounts are available for group bookings to build capacity across your team. Find out about our organisational block bookings.
Choosing your course
Sustainable Healthcare courses
If your specialty is listed below, we recommend choosing that course. These courses include additional specialty-specific content. Workshops are combined with other cross-specialty and speciality courses, facilitating cross-departmental learning.
- Sustainable Healthcare (cross-speciality)
- Sustainable Anaesthetics
- Sustainable Child Health
- Sustainable Dentistry
- Sustainable Kidney Care
- Sustainable Mental Healthcare
- Sustainable Primary Care
- Sustainable Respiratory Care
- Nursing courses (free for registered nurses and midwives):
- Sustainable Innovation for Nurses and Midwives
- Sustainability Analysis and Quality Improvement in Nursing and Midwifery
- Sustainable Innovation Leadership for Senior Nurses and Midwives
Other Specialist Courses:
The online content and workshops for these courses are specific to the course title.
- Green Space and Health (relevant for all)
- Public Health Leadership for Sustainability (for anyone working in public health)
- Sustainable Procurement (for those working in procurement)
Technical courses
These in-depth courses build skills for planning and measuring projects. It is helpful (but not obligatory) to have some knowledge about sustainable healthcare before attending a technical course. You can either attend one of the sustainable healthcare courses (above) or complete the (free) eLearning for Health module ‘Building a Net Zero NHS’ (if you have an NHS email) or similar.
- Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare
- Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI): ideally you would have some knowledge of quality improvement or audit experience before attending this course.
- Teaching Sustainable Quality Improvement: This course is intended to prepare you to teach SusQI in your organisation. To benefit most you would have some teaching experience and some understanding of SusQI, either from the course above, a sustainable healthcare course (above), the (free) eLearning for Health module ‘Environmental Sustainability in Quality Improvement’ or browsing the SusQI.org (free) website.
"I highly recommend the CSH courses. As someone who was interested in environmental sustainability but unsure how to incorporate this into my professional practice, I found it to be a great source of information (and inspiration!). A knowledgeable faculty provide real-life examples of how sustainability projects can improve the NHS for patients and the environment. The courses also provide a fantastic opportunity to network with other like-minded health care professionals (when one can sometimes feel like a ‘lone voice’ within a department)."
Networks: For additional (and free!) support consider joining one or more of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Networks where you can access free resources, ask questions, learn and collaborate with others nationally and internationally.