Resource library

Prescriptions form 60% of the NHS primary care’s carbon footprint. Overprescribing and polypharmacy are common, and worsen quality of care. Appropriate deprescribing is not harmful, can reduce falls,…

This paper explores the challenges faced by general practice in implementing sustainable prescribing. It outlines the actions governments and other relevant bodies across the UK can take to…

Presented by Katy Whitehouse at February's Susnet event focused on Entonox, a real world case study of Catalytic Entonox cracking.Katy Whitehouse is a consultant obstetric anaesthetist at the Royal…

This recording from February's Women's Health Susnet Event on Entonox, discusses the monitoring of the carbon mitigation impacts of introducing an “Entonox Cracking” device into the maternity…

Project completed as part of the National Green Maternity Challenge 2024-25 by the team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.Team members:Dr Thomas Liney, Specialty trainee in Obstetrics &…

Project completed as part of the National Green Maternity Challenge 2024-25 by the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT (NNUHFT) team.Reducing the impact of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy -…

We ran a health creation week in June 2024 across our PCN (5 GP practices in and around Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire) using funds from our ICB to support the Gloucestershire primary care…

Now available CSH YouTube! The recent CSH Sustainable Pharmacy event featuring Tracy Lyons providing an insightful presentation into how theNHS Dorset medicines waste project achieved such amazing…

Central Liverpool PCN undertook a 6 month project using the existing process of structured medication reviews (SMRs) to focus on deprescribing. 81 patients were reviewed. Reviews took an average…

Sub-optimally controlled asthma is common, leading to preventable symptoms, asthma attacks and death. This is in part because of normalisation of symptoms, underuse of preventer therapy, overuse of…