Practical Resources and Guidance
Tools and resources to enable healthcare professionals to understand and deliver greener respiratory healthcare.
The Greener Respiratory Pathway
The Greener Respiratory Pathway is an interactive tool aims to help clinicians work with patients to identify a greener approach to delivering high quality, patient centred respiratory care.
Time to review: 30 minutes
Strategies to enable healthcare professionals to understand and deliver greener respiratory healthcare
Tips you can implement locally in support of greener respiratory healthcare.
Time to review: 30 minutes
Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK every year and both cause and worsen lung disease. While outdoor air pollution may be a topic for governmental policy, we, as healthcare professionals, can take a range of steps to minimise our own contribution to local levels of air pollution, improve the air quality in our places of work and support patients in managing their risk from air pollution in their daily lives.
Time to review: 30 minutes
ICSs will bring together expertise and insights from the NHS and local councils as well as voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises.
Time to review: 1 hour
Shared decision making for greener healthcare: Guidance on making safe and clinically appropriate changes to inhalers
Time to review: 30 minutes
With air pollution being a significant factor in the quality of life of patients with lung conditions, the PCRS Greener Healthcare Initiative sets out to promote practical action that can help to reduce the environmental impact of respiratory healthcare.
Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Clinical resource or information, PCRS Position Statement Clinical Area: Asthma, COPD, Greener Healthcare Status: Current
Date for review: 12th June 2025
Time to review: 30 minutes
In this article Carol Stonham outlines her plans as the new chair for PCRS including her ambitions around cleaner and kinder respiratory healthcare.