Greening your general practice

Dr Dermot Coffey talks about practical environmentally responsible changes you can make in your practice today, to create a sustainable future.

Topics

Starting with a plan.
Disposable items.
Paper use
Appropriate prescribing.
Promoting sustainable action.

Take home messages

Switch to dry powder inhalers
Minimise prescribing
Increase your political advocacy

Resources

Greening your General Practice RNZCGP (2016)

Presenter

Dermot Coffey

General Practitioner

Dermot is a GP working in Christchurch. Graduating from UCC in Ireland and has been living and working in New Zealand since 2002, with all my postgraduate training here. Dermot a member of the executive of OraTaiao: NZ Climate and Health Council since 2018 and has an interest in increasing the role of General Practice in our response to Climate Change.

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