We have a green team who are working to help make our practice more environmentally friendly.

Our key areas of focus for sustainability are:

• Embedding environmental sustainability into our organisational culture
• Improving our energy efficiency
• Reviewing Green procurement
• Reducing waste
• Promoting sustainable transport (such as cycling or walking)
• Reducing our use of paper
• Prescribing responsibly
• Implementing the Green Impact for health toolkit : https://toolkit.sos-uk.org/greenimpact/giforhealth/login]
• Supporting health and wellbeing of our staff

Embedding environmental sustainability into our organisation

• Sustainability is part of our mission statement: ‘We aspire to deliver high quality, appropriate and sustainable healthcare at the right time, by the right person’
• We ask staff to reflect on how they have helped sustainability as part of our appraisals
• We have meetings which include green changes as part of the agenda regularly ask our staff to feedback ideas for improvement
• We work collaboratively with our PCN and Islington borough to improve our goals of net zero

Improving our energy efficiency

• Radiators are turned down where possible 
• Lights and equipment are turned off at the end of the day

Reducing our use of paper

• Working towards being a paperless practice where possible
• Ceasing use of fax machines
• Promoting health education messages to patients via text and email (to reduce the use of leaflets)
• Setting photocopiers to print double sided by default
• Photocopiers are able to scan and email documents
• Online forms being introduced to website

Reducing waste and increasing recycling

• Ensuring only confidential waste is collected for shredding and using ‘shred it’ which helps plant trees!
• All other paper recycled
• Recycling of other materials, including cardboard, printer toner cartridges and batteries
• Encouraging patients to consider recycling of inhalers at certain pharmacies in (Boots on Seven Sister’s roads  Where To Recycle Asthma Inhalers – KnowYourAsthma.com)

Reducing prescribing

• Where possible, the Practice is reducing polypharmacy and over prescribing to improve care for both patients and the planet
• Reducing prescribing of over the counter medicines 
• Reviewing high quality low carbon asthma care and reviewing inhalers which are good for our patients and the planet

Implementing the NUS/RCGP Green Impact Toolkit

• Whole Practice commitment to achieving the Green Impact for Health Award 
• Commitment to support the National Green Impact Agenda to reduce carbon emissions in line with the 2030 United Nations Sustainability Development Goals 
• Supporting other practices and providers to implement the Green Impact Award