Hi there, 

I’m new to the Q community. I’m a pharmacist, spent most of my career working in primary care / general practice, now work full time in education, mainly for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. We have proposed an idea for a project focusing on medicines waste in care homes. This is an age old problem but we would like to look at both the carbon footprint/environmental impact of care home medicines waste and the social aspects around the problem. We’d like to talk to care home, general practice and community pharmacy staff to explore their experience, values and beliefs around medicines to try and bettr understand why wastage of unused medicine continues to be a persistent problem. 

I’d be really interested in your views, comments, suggestions on our project idea to help us refine our proposal. 

https://q.health.org.uk/idea/2024/medicine-waste-in-care-homes-reducing-social-and-environmental-impact/

Thank you so much!

Nuala