This playbook contains background information, resources, and environmental considerations to guide healthcare clinicians, teams and institutions to improve environmental sustainability of pharmacies in Canadian healthcare institutions. It is intended for Canadian healthcare providers and administrators working in pharmacies of bed-based healthcare settings that are providing patient care, contributing to institutional policies, and making institutional changes. While the focus of this playbook centers around hospital pharmacies given the available evidence, the information is applicable to pharmacies in other bed-based facilities, including: long-term care facilities rehabilitation centres palliative care units
In this video, Canadian leaders discuss approaches to environmental sustainability in Pharmacy. Hosted by Fiona Miller, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, speakers include: Shellyza Sajwani, The Ottawa Hospital, Celia Culley, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Terri Drover, Health Products Stewardship Association, Tarek Hussein, Weller Pharmacy.
This video features the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, PEACH Health Ontario, and CASCADES welcoming Dr. Shellyza Moledina Sajwani, who provides an overview of the relevance of climate change to pharmacy practice. It focuses on practical, actionable objectives that can be implemented within hospital pharmacy settings, using the Ottawa Hospital Pharmacy Environmental Stewardship Committee as an example of environmental stewardship in practice.
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.
This Playbook is intended for Canadian pharmacy professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, educators and trainees. The Playbook provides background information, resources and considerations to guide more climate resilient and environmentally sustainable pharmacy practice. These considerations have been compiled from a review of the literature, experiences from practicing pharmacy professionals and guidance from academics in the field.
