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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Upcoming
Greener Practice: Medicines Waste in Care Homes – Reducing Social and Environmental Impact
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Nuala Hampson will demonstrate The Medicines Waste in Care Homes Project. Care homes dispose of £50 million worth of unused medicines every year, but the impact of medicines waste goes far beyond financial loss.
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Greener Practice: Stopping frailty before it starts
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Stopping frailty before it starts: What the ‘Fitter Tomorrow’ programme taught us.
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Greener Practice: The Nature of Pandemics & Invisible Friends – The Microbes That Shape Our Lives
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Jake will explore pandemics as ecological events shaped by how we alter landscapes and interact with wildlife, highlighting the pathogens most likely to spill over and what truly works to prevent future crises. He will then shift to the microbes that help us thrive, revealing how our ‘invisible friends’ support immunity, metabolism, mental health and…
Recordings of past Events
Explore our collection of recorded webinars and events packed with expert knowledge and insights below.
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Past
Greener Practice: Deep Green
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.
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Greener Practice: Yorkshire – EN:Able Communities
Learn about condensation and mould training workshops, alongside health conditions that can be exacerbated by poor indoor air quality.
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Greener Practice: The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme – Recording Available
Hear how The Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Programme delivered real change in tackling polypharmacy and improving patient outcomes.
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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.
