Publications & Case Studies

See our recent project case studies and publications below

New Publication: Pharmaceutical pollution from health care: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risks to public and environmental health

IJPP Guest Editor: The climate, nature, and pollution crises – how more sustainable medicines use can make a difference

ET&C Letter: Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Pharmaceuticals: Time to Acknowledge Pollution

Trifluoroacetic Acid Found Across UK Rivers: New Report Reveals Widespread PFAS Contamination

New Publication: Do you think medicines can be prescribed in a more eco-directed, greener way? Public and prescriber focus groups on the impact of pharmaceuticals in Scotland’s water environment

New Publication: Co-developing frameworks towards environmentally directed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland – A mixed methods study

New CREW report on Emerging Contaminants: Informing Scotland’s strategic monitoring and policy approaches on substances of increasing concern

New report: Citizens’ Panel survey by Healthcare Improvement Scotland asks questions on sustainable healthcare, medicines disposal, and eco-directed prescribing

New report: Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance (SONAAR) by ARHAI Scotland

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the Environment: SEPA Information Note

Estimation of Pharmaceutical Concentrations in Wastewater Using the Data Visualisation Tool: Factors affecting measured and predicted influent pharmaceutical wastewater concentrations – Report

SEPA publication on data visualisation tool – Pharmaceuticals in the Water Environment

Broadening the perspective on reducing pharmaceutical residues in the environment – Review article 2023 – Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

First, do no harm: time for a systems approach to address the problem of health-care-derived pharmaceutical pollution – Commentary article 2022 – The Lancet Planetary Health

Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) – Report 2022, Pharmaceuticals in the water environment: baseline assessment and recommendations

Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) – Report 2022, Environmentally informed pharmaceutical prescribing in Scotland

Alliance for Water Stewardship publications on the Caithness General Hospital – Case study 2021, The first hospital in the world to achieve Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification

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Pharmaceutical monitoring in the River Dee (Aberdeenshire) – Journal publication 2021 – Environmental Pollution, Spatiotemporal trends and annual fluxes of pharmaceuticals in a Scottish priority catchment

Caithness General Hospital case study – Journal publication 2020 – Science of the Total Environment, Assessing hospital impact of pharmaceuticals in a rural source-to-sink water system (link)

Blue prescription programmes in health and social care settings and their Implications for current and post covid-19 pandemic mental healthcare: a systemic review of evidence using realist synthesis – Journal publication 2021