1st Edition
Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care Good for the planet, good for practices, good for patients
List of contributors
Foreword by Rachel Stancliffe
Foreword by Richard Smith
Introduction
1 Primary care and planetary health
TAMSIN ELLIS AND MATT SAWYER
2 Dentistry
CIARA O’KANE AND DAVINDER RAJU
3 General Practice
VEENA AGGARWAL, ILONA HALE, HANNAH O’HARA, SEAN OWENS, JAMES MORTON, JUDITH PINNICK, MUNRO STEWART, SARAH WILLIAMS, AND RICHARD YIN
4 Optometrists and opticians
ANTONIA CHITTY AND ABI PAGE
5 Pharmacy
MIN NA EII, CLARE MURRAY, AND WENDY TYLER-BATT
6 Planetary health in a GP surgery
MIKE TOMSON
7 Achieving appropriate investigation, prescribing, and treatment
TONY AVERY, TESSA LEWIS, AND NEAL MASKREY
8 Lifestyle medicine
LYDIA VOGELAAR-KELLY AND MATT SAWYER
9 Sustainable quality improvement
ALICE CLACK AND FRANCES MORTIMER
10 Estates and energy
BEN HOLT AND MATT SAWYER
11 Travel and transport
MATT SAWYER
12 Procurement of goods and services
MATT SAWYER
13 Air
SINEAD MILLWOOD AND MALCOLM WHITE
14 Water
RICHARD HIXSON, GEORGIE SOWMAN, AND SHARON PFLEGER
15 Land
ANGELA WILSON
16 Finance
SPENCER CASEY AND DENISE SMITH
17 Behaviour change
MANDA BROOKMAN AND DENISE SMITH
18 Working across organisations
HELEN KINGSTON AND EMMA RADCLIFFE
19 Managing eco-distress
BECKI SMITH-TAYLOR
20 Turning intentions into action
MATT SAWYER AND MIKE TOMSON
Appendix A: List of abbreviations
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Useful organisations
Appendix D: Further reading and resources
Index
Biography
Dr Matt Sawyer is a former GP, current Director of SEE Sustainability and a Carbon Literacy trainer, UK
Dr Mike Tomson is a former GP (clinically retired), a medical educator coach and a Trustee for Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, previously Director of Greener Practice CIC, UK.
