Environmental design

Principles of sustainable healthcare in pharmacy practice

The impact of the changing climate is becoming increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. How does the climate crisis relate to pharmacy practice and what can we do about it?…

GPhC to add net zero targets into its pharmacy regulatory processes

The regulator has outlined plans to include environmental sustainability in its standards for pharmacy professionals and registered pharmacy premises, with its full action plan to be published later in August 2024.…

Taking the temperature of embedding environmental sustainability in pharmacy practice

As part of a multidisciplinary leadership development programme, Sarah Cowans surveyed pharmacy colleagues on the barriers and enablers to implementing sustainable initiatives in practice.…

Architecture exhibit aims to start a discussion on the use of space in community pharmacies

The field of health architecture looks at how working environments are designed, exploring what spaces mean to people and how they interact with them.…

Assessing environmental impact of medicines financially ‘catastrophic’ for pharmaceutical industry

Assessing the environmental risks of a new medicine as part of the risk-benefit assessment during market authorisation would be “catastrophic” for the pharmaceutical industry, an environmental scientist from manufacturer AstraZeneca has said.…

Prairie-grass and PCB pollution

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental contaminants that have contaminated large areas of agricultural land in the US. Prairie-grass helps to remove PCB pollution.…

Plant growth impacted by drugs in the environment

Recent research has shown the effect that some drugs, even at very low concentrations, can have on plants such as lettuce and radish.…