Greener Practice, with review and endorsement by the NHS England and NHS Improvement Inhaler Working Group, Asthma UK, and the British Lung Foundation, have produced this comprehensive and excellent guide,
Dr Kay Leedham-Green (Imperial College London) and Dr Frances Mortimer (CSH) will discuss the environmental impact of metered dose inhalers and how we can address this while improving respiratory care
A group from the Health Foundation's Q primary care and Q Sustainability special interest groups have been working on tools and resources to improve asthma care and simultaneously reduce the carbon footprint associated with suboptimal inhaler prescribing and inhaler use.
If you would like a preview of the work they are doing, this will be an opportunity to share your thoughts and give feedback.
Poster to be used in consultation rooms in a Primary care setting to prompt and enable safe, cost effective and pharmacologically equivalent inhaler switches.
Inhalers for asthma and COPD have a disproportionate climate impact due to the propellant gases found in metered dose inhalers. In this webinar Dr James Smith will examine current inhaler prescribing patterns and why changing these in the UK is so important in our efforts to address climate change.
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.
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.
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.
