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Category: Waste & Recycling

Ten Ways to Reduce Single Use Plastic in Your Practice

Plastic is undeniably a very useful material in healthcare – it’s cost-effective, versatile and can be made to meet requirements for sterility and infection control. Unsurprisingly given these attractions, over recent decades, plastic has become ubiquitous in healthcare. How inconvenient then, that plastic comes with some serious downsides for human health!  Most of the plastic

10 Ways to Reduce Medicine Waste

Why? It’s a shocking statistic: medicine waste costs the NHS at least £300 million every year, of which £50 million is in care homes. What’s more, the waste can result in environmental pollution and contribute to antibiotic resistance. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way. By acting together, health care professionals, patients, care home

Reducing our practice’s carbon footprint by appropriate inhaler prescribing

Dr Vasu Siva describes changes to improving her practice’s carbon footprint through appropriate inhaler prescribing.