Greener PCPA
Greener PCPA – A call to action!
Greener PCPA Aims:
- Build awareness and highlight best practice in sustainability and greener practice.
- Inspire and inform fellow pharmacy professionals.
- Offer practical and pragmatic ways of working on the climate change agenda within a personal and professional context.
"The climate crisis is a healthcare crisis"
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Greener PCPA Podcast
Prescribing Through a Green Lens:
How not to lose friends and alienate people
In our latest podcast, Nuala Hampson and Wendy Tyler-Batt talk to Rumina Önaç. Rumina is a GP and Sustainability Lead for 12 surgeries in York, where her inspirational work has achieved national Green Impact for Health awards of silver for her own surgery and a bronze for the federation.
Rumina shares some easy to implement top tips for quick wins for day-to-day sustainable practice in primary care.
Watch the Greener PCPA Webinars:
The impact of Air pollution and climate change on our patients with asthma.
Chair: Wendy Tyler-Batt, Greener PCPA Lead, Clinical GP Pharmacist & Sustainability Lead, Gloucestershire
Speaker: Anna Murphy, Consultant Respiratory Pharmacist, Co-chair Medicine Optimisation working group at Taskforce for Lung Health
Key takeaways:
- Link between air pollution, climate change and the impact on people with asthma
- The link between air pollution and health inequalities and people with asthma
- How to communicate with people with asthma to optimise inhaler therapy; gain confidence in changing device type, improve outcomes and reduce SABA overuse
Changing prescribing behaviour: Using Open Prescribing to encourage greener prescribing
Chair: Nuala Hampson, Greener PCPA Lead, Lead Facilitator, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
Speaker: Brian MacKenna, Director of NHS Service Analytics, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Pharmacist Adviser, NHS England
Key Takeaways:
- An introduction to behaviour change
- Live demo of Open Prescribing and how to use it for Greener NHS work
- What makes prescribers change their behaviour - examples from OpenPrescribing research
Listen to the Greener PCPA Podcasts
Prescribing Through a Green Lens:
How not to lose friends and alienate people
Rumina Önaç, GP and Sustainability Lead
How a whole food plant-based diet can support better health
Notes and further reading for the Greener PCPA Podcast: How a whole food plant-based diet can support better health
Good pharmacy practice is sustainable healthcare. Top tips for engaging with patients and colleagues on sustainable healthcare
