I am based in a cancer centre and trying to look at reducing oral chemotherapy waste, by potentially re-dispensing discontinued or deferred oral prescriptions. The waste usually comes from temporarily…
This time next week, the Sustainable Respiratory Care team willbe discussing what we can focus on during asthma reviews with our patients. What will help them understand their condition…
Call for papers for a special themed issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice on the climate, nature and pollution crises and how more sustainable medicines use can make a…
HappyEarth Day! The 2024Planetary Health Report Cards are released today. Congratulations to UCL, Keele and Queen's University schools of pharmacy who all took part in PHRC 2024.
Greener Practice have secured funding to develop a clinically focused net zero platform to help busy primary care clinicians make changes which are better for patients and the planet!
This project…
Hi everyone
I'm doing a bit of fact finding on disposal of HRT products.
The UK patient information leaflets forHRT patchesstate the following:
Peel an edge of the patch smoothly away from…
A Value-Based Health Care project with patients covered by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Bridgend Local Authority is looking to trial a medication device and associated wraparound care…
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here.
This playbook provides background…
The Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU) is the association representing community pharmacists in 32 European countries.PGEU calls for a number of coordinated actions that should be taken…
Hi all, we are looking to reduce prescriptions of omeprazole suspension (powder for suspension) in paediatric inpatients (+/- outpatients) in Newcastle - major cost savings, but also likely…