‘Green pharmacy across the sectors - Inspiring you to make a difference’.

Speaker Dr Emily Kennedy will share experiences from the Scottish perspective, for example, sustainability in effective prescribing guidelines and the wider application of sustainable healthcare across the sectors, for example, utilising green spaces and promoting active lifestyles to prevent ill health. The hope is to motivate and inspire some achievable actions which you can implement in your practice – it is better to do something rather than nothing, and little by little, those actions add to a lot of change.

Speaker Bio: Dr Emily Kennedy 

Cluster Lead Pharmacist/ Respiratory Specialist Pharmacist (Dumfries and Galloway) and Clinical pharmacist, Climate Change and Sustainability, Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics Division.

E-mail: emily.kennedy2@nhs.scot

Emily has worked in primary care, Dumfries and Nithsdale for 20 years after previous experience in hospital, academia and community pharmacy. Emily has been heavily involved in developing and managing the pharmacotherapy service within General Practices and has special interests in Respiratory and Pain. Emily is a credentialed consultant pharmacist, an independent prescriber, works with many continuing education bodies (NES and universities), chairs the Scottish Respiratory Pharmacy Special Interest Group and represents Pharmacy on a number of respiratory committees. Emily is currently seconded to the Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics division at Scottish Government to implement climate change and sustainability plans in respiratory and polypharmacy.