If we can focus on preventing the waste in the first place it negates the need for the recycling process down the road’, she says. Tracy Lyons, medicines optimisation pharmacist and pharmacy sustainability lead at Poole Hospital, is the founder of Pharmacy Declares, a group of climate-conscious pharmacy professionals. She explains that recycling facilities differ ‘hugely’ across the country making it hard for companies to launch national schemes. The role of the pharmacist and the pharmacy team in preventing illness, optimising medicines and reducing pharmaceutical waste already reduces the impact of medicines on the climate. What we haven’t done before is overtly link the two. We do not provide either medical or legal advice, please consult your doctor or other suitably trained professional wherever appropriate. Cannabis is a controlled-substance throughout the UK and Channel Islands.

increase your engagement with your condition and medicines, supporting you to make decisions about your treatment and self-management The pharmacists agreed that recycling and waste management are only small parts of being sustainable. However, both said it is still a great way for people to get involved in sustainability and to help pharmacies ‘get into a greener mindset’. He has also created his own recycling schemes within his pharmacy. ‘We get a monumental amount of cardboard coming through the pharmacy. So, we always let customers who are moving house to come in and reuse some of our delivery boxes’. Mr Rehan told The Pharmacist he had bought an electric van which he uses to deliver all his medicines, which he says has reduced their fuel costs by over two-thirds. Green Pharmacy можете да намерите успокояваща лайка, противовъзпалително змийско мляко или укрепваща коприва. При производството на козметичните средства се използват доказани рецепти в областта на билколечението. Благодарение на тези полски продукти можете да подобрите здравето и външния си вид на съвсем достъпна цена. Зелената аптека отговаря на изискванията

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https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-insights-and-statistics/prescribing-and-medicines-team A spokesperson for TerraCycle told The Pharmacist, there was an ‘encouragingly high uptake’ for the scheme. However, the resources set up at the beginning of the project were unable to accommodate the large quantities of recycling being received. Combine this with the increasing demand for health services and the fact that medicines are the most common intervention in healthcare, and the role for pharmacy is clear. Medicines account for about 25% of carbon emissions within the NHS. Significant research and stakeholder engagement has been undertaken to identify key priorities for how pharmacy teams can respond to the climate and ecological emergency.

In September 2021, we formally recognised the scale and importance of the situation by publishing a climate declaration. 1 This organisation is listed on Companies House as Dispensary Green Ltd, further details on the link below. View on Companies House General Pharmaceutical Council Report Overall Standards Met Ajay Rehan, pharmacy director at K-Chem pharmacy in Northumberland, who has himself introduced some greener practices, says he agrees that a larger emphasis should be placed on clinical services instead of recycling to reduce pharmacies carbon footprint. https://9tj4025ol53byww26jdkao0x-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021-07-01-Professionals_Charter_text.pdfIf we consider the life cycle of a medicine, from design and development, marketing authorisation to production, post- authorisation, health technology assessment, prescription and consumption and finally waste disposal, pharmacy can have an impact at every stage. The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats we have ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year around the world. According to the NHS, in the UK alone, smoking kills over 80,000 people every year and a further 500,000 people are admitted into hospital as a direct result of smoking. This month, a study found that switching an asthma patient from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry powder inhaler significantly reduces their carbon footprint without loss of asthma control. Green Pharmacy отдавна отговаря на очакванията на своите клиенти и непрекъснато подобрява рецептите, поддържани от органични екстракти. Нещо повече, всеки продукт е внимателно проверен и тестван от експерти в лаборатории, преди да бъде пуснат на пазара. Широк асортимент She adds: ‘The most sustainable thing we can do in community pharmacy is to provide services that prevent the need for further healthcare.’

This policy deliberately focuses on reducing the environmental harm from medicines, rather than the wider climate and ecological emergency. As experts in medicines, pharmacists have a professional responsibility to take a leading role in reducing the environmental impact of medicines use. Similarly, Mr Rehan said he was allowing patients to reuse the bubble wrap he receives products in. In September 2021, we formally recognised the scale and importance of the situation by publishing a climate declaration. Climate change is the most significant health threat modern society has ever faced: it affects clean air, safe drinking water, food and shelter. and reviewed by health professionals. It isn’t intended to replace the medical information given to

Ms Lyons believes – perhaps controversially – that we should ‘forget’ about recycling ‘for now’ and instead focus on steps earlier on in the process to reduce the need for products and medicines in the first place. A lot of things we do in community pharmacy we don’t realise are green activities, such as blood pressure monitoring and the weight management scheme. Even if you manage to run a recycling scheme that can cope with large volumes of waste you are still going to be producing large amounts of waste and as we know, materials like plastic can only be recycled a certain number of times.’ Ms Lyons says. Modelling shows us that the last 50 years of public health gains will be wiped out if we don’t do something now.