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A pragmatic quality improvement ‘good enough’ approach to measuring and comparing carbon-footprint savings associated with ‘Go Green’ switching from IV to oral therapy (IVOST) or reducing IV dose frequency

Antimicrobial stewardship (AS) quality improvement (QI) initiatives promoting IV to oral switch (IVOST)1 or reduced IV dosing frequency provide benefits for patients, staff and the environment. To…

July 2025

Rachael Rodger , Rosie Hillson

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Scale and spread of a metronidazole ‘Go Green’ IV to oral switch (IVOST) grassroots quality improvement initiative in Scotland’s largest acute health board

Promoting appropriate IV to oral switch (IVOST)1 is a fundamental antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiative providing benefits for patients, staff and the environment including: reduced risk of…

July 2025

R Rodger , A Robertson , S Thompson , E Thompson , K Downie , G Ray , L Chisholm , C Pender , K Philips , M Neto , R Hillson , R A Seaton , S Carty , K MacFarlane , N MacDonald , F Kinnaird , A Reuben , S Gillen , Y Gourlay , F Robb , L Stewart , R Pucket

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Pharmacy Sustainability Good Practice Guide

This guide draws together ideas generated from Sustainability Training targeted to Pharmacy colleagues in Greater Manchester, Summer 2024, with additional resources listed as they become available.…

June 2025

Harper, L., Boxall, E., Elsey, R., Aldham, J.

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SusQI Showcase 2025

The annual CSH SusQI Showcase is a webinar event designed to share best practice within SusQI education and implementation. This year we were joined by local and international speakers who shared the…

May 2025

SusQI Team

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The NHSE London Green Celebration recordings

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the London Green Celebration Event. It was a pleasure to shine a spotlight on the incredible people and projects driving sustainability across London’s NHS.The…

July 2025

N Jadav

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Deprescribing in structured medication reviews (SMRs)

Prescriptions form 60% of the NHS primary care’s carbon footprint. Overprescribing and polypharmacy are common, and worsen quality of care. Appropriate deprescribing is not harmful, can reduce falls,…

June 2025

Dr Nadja Van Ginneken, Charlotte Condemine

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9th ELHT Green Newsletter

Check this out for the latest on how ELHT is trying to be a green trust!

June 2025

Dr J Lie & Dr A Islam

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Health Creation Week 'A healthier you for a healthier planet'.

We ran a health creation week in June 2024 across our PCN (5 GP practices in and around Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire) using funds from our ICB to support the Gloucestershire primary care…

July 2024

Wendy Tyler-Batt

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Case study: SusQI

Sustainable abscess incision & drainage, General Surgery

Project completed as part of the Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition 2024-25.Team members:Mr Amari Thompson – General Surgery & Chief RegistrarMr Jatinder Singh – General…

May 2025

Mr Amari Thompson, General Surgery & Chief Registrar

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Greener Pharmacy Toolkit

The RPS Greener Pharmacy Guides and Toolkit have been developed to help pharmacy staff reduce their carbon footprint, so that the pharmacy profession can play their part in addressing the current…

April 2025

Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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