Information from NHS Sustainability Network Meeting 08.12.11 - Bristol

Information and presentations from the NHS Sustainability Network meeting held at NHS South West in Taunton on 06 September 2011.  See below for links to the full minutes, presentations from the day and also to additional information discussed. The next meeting will take place at Taunton Library on Wednesday, 06 March.

Information and presentations included:

• Update on transition, Gemma Dunn, NHS South of England
• National and sub-national updates and events, Lynn Gibbons, Sustainable Health SW
• NHS Gloucestershire medicines waste reduction project, Chris Llewellyn, Medicines Management Pharmacist and Georgina Smith, Sustainability Manager
  To outline what was done to reduce medicines waste in Gloucestershire, including raising awareness with GPs and pharmacies, the main advertising campaign and notable successes of the project.  As we approach the end of the 1st year of the project how improvements will be made to try to reduce medicines waste further. 
• Introduction to the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Rachel Stancliffe, Director,
  An update about the Centre and some of their work on sustainable commissioning and service-line footprinting
• New NHS design guidance ‘Greenspace design for Health and Wellbeing’,  Aileen Shackell,  Aileen Shackell Associates