Medicine Waste in Care Homes

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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