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Terry Kemple was a past president of the RCGP and is now the RCGP’s representative for Sustainability and Climate Change. In this episode he talks to Ben about the Green Impact for Health Toolkit. The Toolkit enables general practices to plan and implement actions they can take to become more sustainable and covers areas such as health and well-being, water use, recycling and procurement. Terry describes the uses of the toolkit, the associated awards scheme and how practices can become involved.

Show Notes

Terry explains his current role at the RCGP (0:41)

Terry’s involvement in The Green Impact for Health Toolkit (0:56)

The origins of the toolkit through the NUS (1:33)

Adapting the scheme for GPs (2:34)

Examples of what practices can do (2:48)

Making a difference as an individual (3:24)

Saving money and being efficient (4:09)

Engaging the practice team (4:35)

Using the toolkit practically (5:06)

Allocating the awards (6:15)

The award itself (6:59)

“A sense of direction” rather than a chore (7:37)

Helping the whole community’s health (8:18)

A universal model with local choices (10:08)

General practice leading on making a difference locally (11:22)

Operating at-scale and the toolkit (12:14)

Getting started (13:11)

Promoting and adapting the Toolkit (14:23)

Contacting Terry (14:58)

The website Terry mentions is www.greenimpact.org.uk/giforhealth and the “test drive log-in” he mentions is gifh@greenimpact.org.uk and the Password is testtoolkit (all one word)

Terry’s email address is tk@elpmek.demon.co.uk