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Medicine Waste in Care Homes

Sustainable business and solutions | Pollution, environmental and human health | Clinical impacts and solutions

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH)
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH)

Reducing social and environmental impact - published 2025

  • Date (DD-MM-YYYY)

    01-11-2025 to 01-11-2026

    Available on-demand until 1st November 2026

  • Cost

    Free

  • Education type

    Publication

  • CPD subtype

    On-demand

Description

The Medicine Waste in Care Homes Project, led by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) with four multi-professional “hub” teams, set out to explore the environmental and social costs of unused medicine in English care homes. The study followed the Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) framework, combining system-wide process-mapping, 12 months of medicine-waste log analysis, and two action-learning workshops with staff from care homes, general practices and community pharmacies. All four hubs were rural or semi-rural, and together covered 211 beds and three different dispensing models.

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