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Antimicrobial stewardship (AS) quality improvement (QI) initiatives promoting IV to oral switch (IVOST)1 or reduced IV dosing frequency provide benefits for patients, staff and the environment. To…
Promoting appropriate IV to oral switch (IVOST)1 is a fundamental antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiative providing benefits for patients, staff and the environment including: reduced risk of…
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July 2025
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R Rodger , A Robertson , S Thompson , E Thompson , K Downie , G Ray , L Chisholm , C Pender , K Philips , M Neto , R Hillson , R A Seaton , S Carty , K MacFarlane , N MacDonald , F Kinnaird , A Reuben , S Gillen , Y Gourlay , F Robb , L Stewart , R Pucket
This guide draws together ideas generated from Sustainability Training targeted to Pharmacy colleagues in Greater Manchester, Summer 2024, with additional resources listed as they become available.…
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 review highlights critical knowledge gaps about polymer waste and pollution in oral healthcare clinics. The variability of study designs limited the feasibility of meta-analysis. Current evidence…
Embedding and Connecting Prevention in Specialist PathwaysBarts Health Social Prescribing Toolkit for secondary care for heart attack care and other specialist pathways.
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April 2025
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Barts Health NHS Trust Community Led Prevention Team, Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC)
The RPS Greener Pharmacy Guides and Toolkit have been developed to help pharmacy staff reduce their carbon footprint, so that the pharmacy profession can play their part in addressing the current…
The Royal College of Surgeons recently released a document on sustainability in dentistry. I attended a course in Taunton in October 2023, where a pie chart indicated that CO2 emissions accounted for…
The article has testimonials written by the patient, donor, and kidney care provider. I found the patient perspective itself really useful—it talks about waste, challenges with recycling, laundry use…
NHS LPP have scoped the sustainability impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements. The full report is now open access and the webinar (including slides) are also available: Oral Nutritional Supplements…
