sustainable prescribing

Question 1

what are RPS sustainability policies

Answer 1

IMPROVING PRESCRIBING AND MEDICINES USE

TACKLING MEDICINES WASTE

PREVENTING ILL HEALTH

IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AND WAYS OF WORKING

Question 2

why is realistic medicine important?

Answer 2

Around 25% of NHS carbon emissions are from medicines.

The majority of these emissions result from the manufacture, procurement, transport and use of medicines (20%), with the remaining 5% specifically from inhalers (3%) and anaesthetic gases (2%).

Question 3

how is polypharmacy reviewed

Answer 3

• what matters to patient
• identify essential drug therapy
• any unnecessary drug therapy
• are therapeutic objectives acheived
• is the patient at risk of ADR
• is it cost effective
• patient willing to take drug therapy

Question 4

what is a high CO2 cost per dose medication?

Answer 4

salbutamol

Question 5

what is trimethoprim use linked to?

Answer 5

global crisis that isn’t related to climate change - antibiotic resistance

Question 6

what is social prescribing

Answer 6

where healthcare professionals refer patients to non-clinical services, for example, arts activities, gardening and sport