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Poster about returning inhalers

Gill Turner
Gill Turner • 5 July 2022

Hi Everyone

It was great to see a few of you at the CCWG session at the RCPCH conference last week.  I enjoyed many of the presentations.  I'm keen to get a copy of the poster the Milton Keynes group used to encourage CYP and families to return empty inhalers.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a copy?

Any reports/abstracts on similar projects would be really useful too.

Thanks

Gill 

Gill Turner

Paediatrics, Hexham, Northumberland

Comments (6)

Emily  Parker
Emily Parker

Hi Jill,

I'd love to see this too if you've found a copy! Also planning to work on inhaler carbon footprint reduction in paediatrics in Newcastle. Would you like to link up?

Emily

Gill Turner
Gill Turner

Hi Emily,

Yes please!  I'd love to link up.  I've been working with Becky Ellerton, paed trainee who is coming to the RVI soon.  I still haven't got a copy but also haven't chased this up in recent weeks and now will.  Might it be good to have a quick teams conversation, you , me and Becky sometime soonish to talk about how to progress things?

Great to hear from you

Gill xx 

Emily  Parker
Emily Parker

Hi Gill,

Great to hear from you. Would be v keen to meet you and Becky. I've been thinking about designing a Transition Clinic (maybe around the transition from Primary to Secondary school) to look at switching children to DPIs and educating them around good asthma care/inhaler recycling etc. The idea is in very early stages so would be keen to discuss and think further about how it might work / any other ideas you have.

I'll send you an email to arrange.

Emily

Alexandra Heelis
Alexandra Heelis

Hi Gill and Emily, 

I have been working with a paediatric consultant and CYP representative on a similar project.  They have just submitted a proposal on a inhaler returns project to the Greener NHS Healthier Futures Action Fund.  I'm sure they would really appreciate linking up with you to discuss this further.  If you drop me an email at alex.heelis@uhbw.nhs.uk I can put you all in contact.

Best wishes

Alexandra Heelis

Sustainability Officer at University Hospitals Britol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust


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