Planetary Health Episodes
8.4 Professor Alistair Boxall - From Prescription to Pollution: The Unseen Impact of Medicines in Our Waterways
What really happens to medicines after we swallow them? Where do they end up… and what exactly are we flushing away? Which medicines might we be taking —unknowingly—the next time we pour a glass of tap water?
7.2 - Back to the Future! Dr Berwyn Owen and The Evolution of Community Pharmacy.
Community Pharmacist Dr Berwyn Owen is a pharmacy proprietor and prescriber in rural North Wales and we discuss what the future of medicines management looks like through the lens of community pharmacy
3.6 - Tracy Lyons - Planetary Health, The Carbon footprint of Medicines - and exploding batteries.
We are joined by Tracy Lyons the UKCPAs Environment & Sustainability advisor who helped form ‘Pharmacy Declares’, ‘climate conscious’ pharmacy professionals calling for professional/regulatory bodies to 1) declare a climate emergency 2) fully divest from fossil fuels & 3) provide climate-health education /leadership.