Conducted by the education charity Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK), with backing from the NHS Healthier Futures Action Fund and Greener NHS, the programme challenges dental practices to incorporate accredited sustainability actions into their procedures.
Across 2024, Crossbank Dental Care completed 123 actions from a list of 167, putting them in the top percentile of practices in the country. Twenty-six practices qualified for an award, and just six for a gold award.
Crossbank Dental Care also earned its Green Small Business certification in 2024.
The practices 2024 initiatives included eliminating clinical waste and single-use plastics wherever possible and improving office admin recycling, including repurposing non-confidential ‘scrap’ paper into notebooks. The practice also focused on turning outside ‘overlooked land’ into green space, together with hedgehog homes, bird feeders, bug hotels and a ‘Hotbin’ composter.
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