This webinar examines how medications, while essential to healthcare, have significant environmental impacts and can contribute substantially to healthcare’s carbon footprint, particularly in primary care. It explains that most prescriptions are written in primary care, creating an opportunity for more sustainable prescribing practices that combine patient-centred care with reduced environmental impact. The session in the Sustainable Primary & Community Care Implementation Series features Ilona Hale, a family physician with the East Kootenay Division of Family Practice and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Trudy Huyghebaert, a clinical pharmacist with the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, who share prescriber and pharmacist perspectives on sustainable medication use.
This webinar explores how occupational therapy can support climate-conscious, sustainable healthcare. It highlights ways practitioners can reduce environmental impacts, design nature-informed services, and build climate resilience. Janet Craik and Nancy Rushford present the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, offering guidance for low-carbon, sustainable occupational therapy practice.
Métis pharmacist Amy Lamb, Executive Director of the Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada, shared her experiences supporting pharmacy services to Indigenous communities as a front-line pharmacy professional and systems advocate. This webinar focused on the experiences of community pharmacies building sustainable distribution to rural and remote communities and navigating health access during climate emergencies. It shared stories and lived experiences from pharmacy professionals and Indigenous community members as they navigated pharmacy and broader health access. It also highlighted the importance of land in the holistic healing of Indigenous communities, emphasizing its role in structural determinants of health and the impacts of environmental racism.
In this session of the Sustainable Primary & Community Care Implementation Series, we will hear from a multi-disciplinary team who are putting social prescribing concepts into practice, learn more about building community engagement and resilience, and co-creating programs: Gary Bloch, Family Physician and Physician Lead, Equity and Social Interventions, St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team Nassim Vahidi-Williams, Manager, Community and Patient Engagement, SMHAFHT Sandesh Basnet, SEED Program Link Worker, SMHAFHT Janet Rodriguez, Lived Experience Expert Advisor, SMHAFHT
The Sustainable Hospital Pharmacy Scorecard helps teams: identify sustainability opportunities, establish a baseline and track progress on sustainability goals, and share metrics with the broader community to track collective progress.
