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Transcript to presentaiton. For the associated slides please search ‘Introduction to Green Impact for Health Toolkit slides’. With thanks to Stephanie Ireland who wrote this in her year as a Green NHS sustainability fellow.

BMJ Article from 2020

Paper from 2019 providing a good summary on the physical and mental benefits that come with access to an engagement with green space.

Reusable Insulin Pens save waste, money and carbon, and are often preferred by patients too. This paper explores this switch and many local guidelines now advocate for reusable options first line.

Greener Practice North East ran an excellent webinar in July 2025 on ‘Setting up a sustainability Medical Student Selected Component (SSC) placement’. SSCs offer students the chance to spend longer in an area of interest. It offers us a brilliant opportunity to introduce more students (and GPs) to sustainable medicine as well as financial incentives

An academic poster explaining the importance of asking patients ‘Show me your meds, please‘

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

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

Let Nature Be Thy Medicine: A Socioecological Exploration of Green Prescribing in the UK (2020)

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