2025 was a great year for thinking green and acting sustainably at Granville House Medical Centre. It is our pleasure to announce that our surgery has won the Green Impact for Health Bronze award for General Practice.
Green Impact is a United Nations award winning programme that encourages practices to think and act in a more sustainable way for their community and the environment. The programme focuses on the reduction of carbon emissions, the use of sustainable practice in improving patient health, enhancing community well-being and cost saving.
The programme consists of completing different tasks that earn the practice points (ranging from 1-6 depending on the task). These tasks include items like; ensuring that waste is disposed of in the correct way, completing medication reviews to ensure we are prescribing sustainably, and providing information about the effects of air pollution to our patients with COPD and asthma. The points from these tasks add up, the evidence is examined by a Green Impact representative and the award is then granted. Granville House Medical Centre achieved 105 points completing a bronze award this year.
We feel very privileged to have been able to take part in this award scheme and hope to continue working to maintain our bronze award and potentially move on to a silver in the future.
