The One Health Breakthrough Partnership (OHBP) is a unique group of researchers, academics, water providers and regulators, environment agency representatives, and public health specialists from five organisations across Scotland working together to reduce pharmaceutical pollution in the environment through sustainable One Health innovation.

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The Environment Strategy for Scotland – ‘An integrated approach to achieve our vision’

The Scottish Government have published the updated Environment Strategy for Scotland, alongside the Circular Economy Strategy and Climate Change Plan (2026-40). The Environment Strategy is designed to create an integrated framework for Scotland’s environment and climate policies, and aims to support a whole-of-government approach for fulfilling Scotland’s role in tackling the global crises of nature … Continue reading The Environment Strategy for Scotland – ‘An integrated approach to achieve our vision’

Health Care Without Harm Webinar: Managing the water footprint of the healthcare sector: Strategies to minimise pharmaceutical pollution

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) will host an open webinar exploring how the healthcare sector can manage it’s water footprint and ways to minimise pharmaceutical pollution in hospital wastewater through sustainable waste management. Date and time: Apr 9 (10:00 GMT) Registration link: Webinar Registration – Zoom Description: While pharmaceuticals are vital to patient recovery, their … Continue reading Health Care Without Harm Webinar: Managing the water footprint of the healthcare sector: Strategies to minimise pharmaceutical pollution

Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project: Final event at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (Cambridge)

The final event of the Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project will take place on June 9th at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (DISC), Cambridge. The PREMIER project (2020-2026) has brought together a world-leading multi-disciplinary consortium composed of 27 partners from the public and private sectors working to contribute to a sustainable future by … Continue reading Prioritisation and Risk Evaluation of Medicines in the Environment (PREMIER) project: Final event at the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (Cambridge)

New Project: Investigating whether a One Health approach can be used to address load reductions of pharmaceuticals under Article 8 rUWWTD 

The Scottish Government will consider the extent to which the recast Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (rUWWTD) should be incorporated into Scottish legislation. Article 8 of the rUWWTD requires a subset of substances from 12 identified to have an 80% load reduction at some of the larger wastewater treatment works over a phased period – 10 of these substances are pharmaceuticals.  Scottish Water and the University … Continue reading New Project: Investigating whether a One Health approach can be used to address load reductions of pharmaceuticals under Article 8 rUWWTD 

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