Looking after our patients and our planet

A healthy environment and healthy people go together, so we are working to reduce our impact on the planet across our practices.

That includes energy-saving lighting and recycling at our sites, moving towards paperless correspondence, recycling inhalers, and choosing lower-emission options where we can. We are working towards the NHS Green Impact for Health award, and each site has a Green Health Champion.

We are also trying something a little different: green prescriptions, where alongside, or instead of, medication, we encourage time outdoors for wellbeing, such as walks in Southwark Park or visits to Surrey Docks Farm. Small changes, made together, add up.