Jonathan talks to Minna Eii about the sustainability challenges for medicines.
Minna is an Acute Medicine hospital pharmacist based in the northeast. She is the co-founder of an environmentally conscious pharmacy group in the UK called Pharmacy Declares and the lead author of the newly launched Royal Pharmaceutical Society Greener Pharmacy Toolkit.
Jonathan and Minna discuss what the challenges are for pharmacy as medicines account for 25% of carbon emissions within the NHS. While recycling packaging and avoiding waste is important, the challenge is far wider than that. Making sure the medicine is truly required and wanted by the person in the first place is key to this.
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