Combe Coastal Practice has enrolled in the Green Impact for Health Project!
This is a scheme that has been developed for General Practice by the National Union of Students and is supported by the University of Bristol, NHS Health Education South West and the Severn Faculty of the RCGP. The aim of the project is to improve the environmental performance of our practice.
We have been motivated to take part due to an increasing awareness of the relationship between health, the environment and the impact that the provision of healthcare can have on the environment and wider society.
What is Combe Coastal Practice doing?
We have been part of the Green Impact Awards for which we have:
- Continued to ensure that we prescribe medication appropriately as overuse of medication has major environment health implications
- Actively encouraged non-medication approaches to managing health through social prescribing
- Partnered with the Woolacombe Dunes park run
- Reduced paper usage in the practice
- Systematically offered inhalers with minimal environmental impact (dry powdered inhalers)
- Signposted patients to inhaler recycling scheme (‘Complete the cycle’)