Sara Shaw (@sarashaw.bsky.social)

Addressing the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals is no longer optional It’s urgent and necessary in the drive for >>sustainable healthcare Read our call to action, link below👇 And then, whenever you can and however you can, take action 🙌 @oxprimarycare.bsky.social doi.org/10.12968/hme...

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Addressing the Environmental Impact of Pharmaceuticals: A Call to Action | British Journal of Hospital Medicine The contribution of health care to environmental and climate crises is significant, under-addressed, and with consequences for human health. This editorial is a call to action. Focusing on pharmaceuticals as a major environmental threat, we examine pharmaceutical impacts across their lifecycle, summarising greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and biodiversity loss, and outlining challenges and opportunities to reduce this impact. We urge health care decision-makers and providers to urgently consider environmental factors in their decision-making relating to both policy, and practice, promoting actions such as rational prescribing, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and research and advocacy for sustainable production, procurement, and use. https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2024.0841