Exciting things are happening in the word of sustainable primary care but your ideas and involvement are needed. This is your place to connect with others taking forward a range of things including sustainable prescribing, fuel poverty initiatives and sustainability actions within the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Sustainable Paediatric Respiratory Care

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Reusable Surgical Masks

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Climate Emergency Declaration: A Guide for Primary Care

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May, 2021

Sustainable Vaccination

Primary care has a key role in the organisation and administration of vaccines.

New Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare elearning programme

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has partnered with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh)(link is external) to develop elearning resources designed to equip healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills they need to deliver healthcare that is financially, socially, and environmentally sustainable.

framework for sustainable inhaler practices in GP

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- summary of interviews with practice patients
- framework for action/SusQI projects in GP

May, 2021

Call to Action for Environmentally Sustainable Practices in the Eye Health Sector

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Health Outcomes of Travel Tool

The Health Outcomes of Travel Tool (HOTT) developed by the Greener NHS Team, formerly known as the SDU, supports NHS organisations to quantify the total health impact from travel and transport through air pollution and other quantifiable health impacts (e.g.

March, 2021

RCGP & UKHACC Net-zero GP Webinar Tuesday 16th March 1-2pm

Please join us to learn discuss and consider:

Net-zero General Practice: What can we do and how can we get there?

Research into environmental impact of different forms of contraception

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Exciting opportunity for GP passionate about QI

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The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

December, 2020

Sharing SusQI ideas in primary care

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Passivhaus health centre - presentation

The UK Passivhaus Trust conference is taking place over the next four Wednesday afternoons.

Green Impact for Healthcare (GIFH) Toolkit Launch 2020

Please see the new and improved Green Impact for Healthcare (GIFH) Toolkit. This toolkit provides detailed guidance on specific practical actions that GP Practices can take towards environmentally sustainable practice.

October, 2020

Innovative Training Post in GP Training

I and a colleague are putting together a proposal for an Innovative Training Post (ITP) within the GP training programme in Scarborough themed arou

Sustainable surgery in primary care

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Invitation for Doctors working in Europe to complete Survey

Students from the University of Amsterdam would like to hear from you regarding COVID-19 induced e-health implementation and its contrib

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

Greener Practice website

A resource created by a group of GPs, medical students and others to engage the primary care community towards Greener Practice: actions that improve the health of both people and planet.

June, 2020

New GP contract incentivises lower carbon inhalers

The new GP contract published last week includes a new incentive to encourage lower carbon inhalers.

RCGP Green Impact for Health toolkit

A toolkit to help general practices improve their sustainability and environmental impact, and reduce their practice expenses.

RCGP and SOS

October, 2014

Green Inhaler website

This patient- and clinician-facing website gives guidance on choosing inhalers with lower environmental impact - something which is now included in the BTS asthma guidelines.

Dr Alex Wilkinson

September, 2019

New BTS asthma guidelines encourage use of low-GWP inhalers

Section 8.6 of the new BTS/SIGN Guideline for the management of asthma highlights the environmental impact of metered dose inhalers (pMDI) and recommends that inhalers with low global-warming potential (GWP) should be used when likely to be equally effective.

British Thoracic Society

July, 2019

Asthma UK inhaler videos

Are you confident in teaching patients how to use their inhalers? The first step in improving environmental sustainability of inhaler use is to ensure that people use the correct technique to get the drug to where it is needed.

Asthma UK

July, 2019

NICE encourages use of greener asthma inhalers

"People with asthma will be helped to choose the inhaler that is best for them, and best for the environment, by a new patient decision aid from NI

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustainable health system.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

Go Green for 2015 - Top Tips for General Practice Teams

Dr. Sara Vogan

September, 2014

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Climate Emergency Declaration: A Guide for Primary Care

May, 2021

framework for sustainable inhaler practices in GP

SSC report + recorded workshop
- background/context of sustainable respiratory care
- summary of interviews with practice patients
- framework for action/SusQI projects in GP

May, 2021

Health Outcomes of Travel Tool

March, 2021

The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

December, 2020

Green Impact for Healthcare (GIFH) Toolkit Launch 2020

October, 2020

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Blue, brown and now green

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The Pharmaceutical Journal

June, 2020

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

Greener Practice website

A resource created by a group of GPs, medical students and others to engage the primary care community towards Greener Practice: actions that improve the health of both people and planet.

June, 2020

Sustainable Paediatric Respiratory Care

Free podcast on sustainable paediatric respiratory care with Paediatric Trainees Kirsten Dykes and Rosie Spooner.

Reusable Surgical Masks

Now, more than ever, is the time we need to introduce reusable surgical masks.

Sustainable Vaccination

Primary care has a key role in the organisation and administration of vaccines.

New Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare elearning programme

Call to Action for Environmentally Sustainable Practices in the Eye Health Sector

In celebration of #EarthDay2021, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has declared a #ClimateEmergency and released a

RCGP & UKHACC Net-zero GP Webinar Tuesday 16th March 1-2pm

Please join us to learn discuss and consider:

Net-zero General Practice: What can we do and how can we get there?

Research into environmental impact of different forms of contraception

Hi all,

Exciting opportunity for GP passionate about QI

The RCGP is currently advertising for a new Clinical Champion role to lead the Quality Improvement Capacity and Knowledge in Primary Care (QUICK) p

Sharing SusQI ideas in primary care

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Passivhaus health centre - presentation

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