Greener Practice

@rcgp.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk

Are you a PCN/ICB lead? We can support your busy leadership role! Our resources:
🩺Align with NHS priorities- #netzero targets, #healthequity, #preventativemedicine
🔢 Demonstrate impact & scalability of #primarycare decarbonisation
💰Support cost-effectiveness measures

@rcgp.bsky.social @rcgp-innovait.bsky.social #GPtraining #GP #primarycare

Greener Practice Learn more (3 minute read) Greener Practice is a not-for-profit community interest company, run by clinicians for clinicians. Our mission is to educate and enable primary care to move towards…

Hi there busy GPSTs! We can help support you through your training:

✅Use our resources to tick off RCGP e-portfolio target areas
📜Save time with our step-by-step QIP/QIA templates
💊Use our prescribing templates to foster best practice and prepare for the ST3 Prescribing Assessment

Join us below!

If you're holding a Fairtrade International event, we'd love to see pictures!

Remember, if you're a GP surgery and part of the #GIFH toolkit, this can be used as part of 'FOD004'

#foodsecurity #nutrition #healthcare #climatejustice #socialjustice

Fairtrade fortnight. Choose the world you want: choose fair, choose change. Be the change. This Sept 22nd - Oct 5th

Join us for a cuppa? It has to be #fairtrade though

➡️ Nutritious, affordable food is essential for good health
➡️ Sustainable food chains need fair wages for farmers & other workers
➡️ Fair wages allow farmers to invest in climate resilience practices
#fairtradefortnight

@rcophth.bsky.social @specsaversuk.bsky.social

National Eye Health Week 22-28 September 2025

Do you wear glasses or contact lenses? Maybe you're an optician or ophthalmologist? 👁️

This #EyeHealthWeek, tell us what the challenges are in making eye health more sustainable. We’d love to hear examples of how opticians or hospital eye clinics are trailblazing in green practice! 🪴

@thecsp.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Never too Late - maintaining strength as we age

See this great video about strengthening exercises from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAZ...

This #FallsPreventionWeek, help your older patients assess their risk of falls and put preventative measures in place:
- Sit up & go test 🪑
- Meds review 💊
- Healthy eating: calcium & hydration 🦴💧
- Balance & strength exercises 🏋️‍♀️
- Look for trip hazards❗

What other tips do you share with patients?

Do you #KnowYourNumbers?

🫀High blood pressure often has no symptoms, but can cause heart attacks, strokes, dementia and erectile problems.
🩺Check your BP at your local pharmacy and take control of your health.

Thanks for following us and helping make healthcare better for patients and the planet.

Hey busy GPs! Think sustainable healthcare isn’t ‘clinical’?
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✔️Clean air = fewer chest infections
✔️Less polypharmacy = fewer hospital admissions
✔️Minimising wasted medicines saves money
✔️Lifestyle discussions = healthier eating & food security
✔️Recycling projects = popular with patients
Join us!

Job opportunities Find your next opportunity to create sustainable primary care. Greener Practice is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC). Our mission is to enable primary care to move towards…

We're hiring!

We’re seeking a Membership and Network Development Officer to work with our directors and our wider network members, to support the growth and development of our existing network, and to promote Greener Practice CIC across the UK.

www.greenerpractice.co.uk/jobopportuni...

www.greenerpractice.co.uk

- Sustainability IS clinical care
⬇️ polypharmacy means fewer admissions

- Time-saving
Our #GreenPlan template saves time and provides evidence for CQC

- Empowerment
We help from beginner to expert via simple actions, up to detailed audits.

- Peer support
See our video!

We remain enormously grateful for the enthusiasm and dedication of our directors, members, and volunteers. This new website will provide a better user experience, help grow our network further, and move the organisation forward!

Click link in bio for more info.

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Coming soon in May: the Greener Practice Platform, our new website!

🤝simplified membership with streamlined WhatsApp groups
ℹ️Network+ membership: a paid upgrade giving access to our new Project & Resource Libraries
📍Improved connections via an opt-in ‘People Map’ enabling better networking
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This Bowel Cancer Awareness month, Primary Care HCPs can:
🚬discuss risk factors
🫛encourage ⬇️processed meats & red meat
👟promote exercise, incl chair-based work-outs, exercise on prescription, and e.g. @moveitorloseituk.bsky.social @parkrunuk.bsky.social
🧘advise on prehabilitation prior to surgery

Yes please we’d love to join!

It’s national ‘Hydration & Nutrition’ week💦

❓Do you keep your team healthy with:
-regular drinks breaks
-a staff room to eat lunch away from their desk
-BYO water bottles rather than disposable cups

How else does your team promote these essential elements of health & well-being?

🖥️ Did you catch our 'Project Platform' webinar, as we prepare to launch it on the new-look website next month? 
 
If not, don't worry - you can still see it here: lnkd.in/ej7Du-Q7 
 
Interested? For more educational events, plus new resources launching soon, join us: lnkd.in/e2mWfVDj

We’re new to Bluesky!

Greener Practice is a not-for-profit community interest company set up by GPs. 

🤝We run the UK’s Primary Care network, providing support, networking, and resources, to help professionals provide care that is good for patients and the planet.

🩺 Hi there GPs and everyone working in Primary Care!

Are you trying to reduce waste, promote healthy living & a happy workforce, all whilst continuing to provide great care to patients? 
 
Then give us a follow - 📨 membership is FREE! Join by emailing contact@greenerpractice.com