Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care

This practical guide, for primary care, provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good healthcare delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world.

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.

List of contributors. Foreword by Rachel Stancliffe. Foreword by Richard Smith. Introduction. 1 Primary care and planetary health. 2 Dentistry. 3 General Practice. 4 Optometrists and opticians. 5 Pharmacy. 6 Planetary health in a GP surgery. 7 Achieving appropriate investigation, prescribing, and treatment. 8 Lifestyle medicine. 9 Sustainable quality improvement. 10 Estates and energy. 11 Travel and transport. 12 Procurement of goods and services. 13 Air. 14 Water. 15 Land. 16 Finance. 17 Behaviour change. 18 Working across organisations. 19 Managing eco-distress. 20 Turning intentions into action. Appendix A: List of abbreviations. Appendix B: Glossary. Appendix C: Useful organisations. Appendix D: Further reading and resources. Index.