Upcoming events
UK Sustainability Days Calendar: This downloadable PDF file contains a summary of all the sustainability themed days or weeks of the UK calendar. These can be used to raise awareness and as a focus for activities. Specific resources for events are often available from each campaign’s site.
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Greener Practice: The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme
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Greener Practice: The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme Speakers: Dr Clare Howard Tuesday 13th January from 1300-1400. Register here. Hear how The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme delivered real change in tackling polypharmacy and improving patient outcomes. Greener Practice is delighted to have Clare Howard, a senior pharmacist with extensive experience leading national medicines safety
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Greener Practice: Deep Green
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Greener Practice: Deep Green Speakers: Dr Hawkins and Dr Frost Tuesday 10th February from 1300-1400. Register here. Dr Katie Hawkins and Dr Helen Frost will present the development of a web-based toolkit (“Deep Green”) for use in primary care to improve engagement with green social prescribing of older patients living in deprived areas. This study,
Past Events
We are in the process of uploading past events to the website.
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Eat Lancet 2.0: The Role of Healthcare Professionals -Recording Available
Guest speaker Dr Shireen Kassam, consultant haematologist and founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK will help us understand the impact of the food system on planetary health and the recommendations of the 2025 Eat Lancet 2.0 report.
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Introducing our new and improved website, full of resources for excellent, sustainable, primary care – Recording Available
Discover how sustainability can transform your practice — without the extra workload. Join us for a quick tour of our brand-new website, packed with ready-to-use quality improvement projects and practical resources. In 30 minutes (plus time for questions afterwards) see how greener healthcare delivers better patient outcomes, cost savings, happier teams, and CQC confidence.
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Free Asthma Online Training
Optimise Prescribing for Asthma in line with the new NICE/BTS guidance.
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Marches Energy Agency
How can you save money and reduce energy use in your practice this winter? GP practices can save money and energy with immediate return on investment with help from the energy advice charity Marches Energy Agency (MEA)
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2nd NHS Sustainable Solutions Conference: Building a Greener NHS
Estates & Facilities This event serves as a unique platform for healthcare leaders, policymakers, and sustainability experts to collaborate, share innovations, and tackle key challenges such as capital funding, emissions from healthcare operations, and sustainable infrastructure development. The conference is especially timely, as the NHS faces complex challenges—from reducing harmful nitrous oxide emissions in hospitals
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Greener Practice Asthma Guidance Webinar
Our webinar on the new BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline, aimed at improving health outcomes with the added benefit of reducing inhaler environmental impact.
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Polypharmacy and the link with Net Zero
An excellent talk from Clare Howard, a pharmacist who is the lead for the RCGP RPS repeat prescribing toolkit, and the clinical lead for the Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme.
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Why teaching about planetary health through using cases makes sense
Dr Mike Tomson looks at some of the educational reasons that using cases might work for teaching planetary health
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Plants not pills
This short talk by Dr Kath Brown discusses use of plant based diets instead of medication for promoting and maintaining good health outcomes.
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RSPB Nature Prescriptions
Dr Deb Gompertz describes her project focussing on person centered care, proactive care, and collaborative working as well as changing practices with environmental impact.
