*Health news round-up: new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 'online hospital' and environmental burden of medicines*
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A weekly summary of important developments in health news that you may have missed
In this comment piece, #MinnaEli and #TracyLyons highlight that the NHS ten-year health plan’s sustainability goals will be impossible to achieve unless the potential of pharmacy is realised and prioritised
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In this blog, #ZitaZachariah highlights a themed collection of papers featured in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, which is aimed at increasing knowledge and awareness of how to decarbonise pharmacy practice
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In this comment piece, #MinnaEli and #TracyLyons highlight that the NHS ten-year health plan’s sustainability goals will be impossible to achieve unless the potential of pharmacy is realised and prioritised
#ukpharmacy #netzero #greenpharmacy
New open-access textbook "Medicines and the Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Pharmacy" aims to raise awareness among health professionals and policymakers. #pharmacy #greenpharmacy @helsinki.fi
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🌍 EAHP Working Group on Environmental Sustainability meets in Switzerland!
A big thank you to CSL Vifor for hosting us and sharing their expertise on sustainable practices.
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There is SO much science on #phytochemicals showing health benefits.A RATIONAL&scientifically literate person should realize that compounds derived from nature are intrinsically safer; "new to nature" molecules are much more likely to have unintended consequences. #greenpharmacy #flavonoids #FDA
Proposals to introduce charges for community pharmacies to register to dispose of drugs have been dropped by the Environment Agency
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More than 40 Superdrug pharmacy branches have achieved bronze status under the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Greener Pharmacy Toolkit, since the toolkit launched in April 2025, according to data
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Although some progress has been made towards reducing the carbon footprint of medicines within the NHS, in this week's feature, #EmmaWilkinson explores the need for more focus on medicines waste and disease prevention
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According to data obtained from NHS England, average emissions for short-acting beta-2 agonist inhalers prescribed in primary care declined by 33% between 2020 and November 2024 — from 24.2 kgCO2e to 16.1 kgCO2e
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NHS England is assessing the possibility of rolling out a national inhaler recycling scheme and is “committed to exploring inhaler recycling and its potential benefits”, according to health minister Karin Smyth
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A scheme that allows pharmacies to demonstrate work done to monitor and reduce their environmental impact at a gold, silver or bronze level has been launched by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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A report published by the Office of Health Economics said that a switch to the use of carbon minimal pressurised metered dose inhalers could cut NHS carbon emissions by more than 600,000 tonnes per year
#MDIs #asthma #inhalerswitching #greenpharmacy
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#Boots and #Tesco have extended their recycling schemes, through which customers can return plastic medication packaging to stores
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