Talbot Road Dental Practice has been awarded a Bronze Award for 2022 by the Greener Primary Care Wales Framework and Award Scheme.

What does this mean?

Climate change affects us all and can have negative impacts on individual and population health. We all need to do our part to mitigate climate change, including primary care practices. In 2018/19 the carbon footprint of NHS Wales was approximately 1 million tonnes of CO2e, 2.6% of Wales’s total greenhouse gas emissions, the highest in the public sector.

The Greener Primary Care Wales Framework and Award Scheme from Public Health Wales has been designed to help independent primary care contractors (community optometry, general practice, community pharmacy and primary care dental practices) to improve the environmental sustainability of their day-to-day practice.

That is why we, as a practice, have taken part in the framework for 2022. As part of the framework, we completed the following actions:

· Talked to the team about reducing our energy consumption in the Practice eg. Running full loads in the sterilizers, switching off appliances when they are not in use
· Introduced our patients to the availability of environmentally friendly oral health products, and provide samples where we can

We’re delighted to have received a Bronze Award and are committed to reducing our impact on the environment.

Read more about the framework and award scheme by visiting: Greener Primary Care - Primary Care One (nhs.wales)