The Friendly Family Surgery is committed to minimizing the impact of our operational activities on the environment.

Our commitment is to:

• Continuously improve our environmental performance and integrate recognized environmental management best practice into our operational activities
• Reduce our consumption of resources and improve the efficient use of those resources
• Measure and take action to reduce the carbon footprint of our operational activities to meet our published objectives and targets
• Manage waste generated from our operational activities according to the principles of reduction, re-use and recycling
• Manage our operational activities to prevent pollution
• Give due consideration to environmental issues and energy performance in the acquisition, design, refurbishment, location and use of buildings
• Ensure environmental including climate change, criteria are taken into account in the procurement of goods and services
• Comply as a minimum with all relevant environmental legislation as well as other environmental requirements to which the practice subscribes

To meet our commitments we will:

• Provide oversight and review of environmental policies and performance, and allocate resources for their effective direction and implementation
• Set and monitor key objectives and targets for managing our environmental performance at least annually
• Communicate internally and externally our environmental policy and performance on a regular basis, and encourage feedback
• Communicate the importance of environmental issues to our employees
• Work together with our employees, service partners, suppliers and their agents to promote improved environmental performance
• Promote appropriate consideration of sustainability and environmental issues in the services we provide to our patients
• Review our environmental policy regularly

This statement represents our general position on environmental issues and the policies and practices we will apply in conducting our business.