This report from Healthcare Without Harm highlights successful initiatives across Europe where pharmacists are taking the lead in promoting responsible medicine use, reducing pharmaceutical waste, and…
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The UK government green…
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This studymeasured the extent of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) contamination in the English national parks by monitoring 54 APIs in 37 rivers across all national parks over…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Marianne Dawson, Canada, British Columbia
Issue: To scale sustainable change and not add to the…
To scale and spread promotion of the oral route in antimicrobials with high oral bioavailability with the aim of reducing collective IV use by 20% by February 2023 at RAH.
Published date
June 2023
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R Rodger, S Thompson, A Robertson, C Pender, G Ray, L Chisholm
To promote improved antimicrobial stewardship and sustainability by improving the appropriate use of oral metronidazole in surgical wards at the Royal Alexandra Hospital
The aim of this study was to scale and spread a quality improvement (QI) initiative promoting appropriate intravenous to oral switch (IVOST) of metronidazole in all adult inpatient wards in NHSGGC…
Published date
July 2024
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Rachael Rodger, Amy Robertson, Emma Thompson, Karen Downie, Sharon Thompson, Gautam Ray, Lindsey Chisholm and Rosie Hillson
The Royal College of Physicians has launched the Green Physician Toolkit to support doctors with a range of actions they can take in their day-to-day practice to mitigate and adapt to the effects of…
This report records a sustainable quality improvement project aimed at reducing plastic bag use in the pharmacy dispensaries of the acute general hospitals of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board…