Environmental Policy

DUNDAS VETERINARY GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY-CLIENT INFORMATION

At Dundas Veterinary Group we are committed to trying to reduce our impact on the environment throughout our daily running of all of our branches.

There are many ways in which you, as our valued clients, can help to ensure we can try to achieve this:

1.APPROPRIATE ANTIBIOTIC AND PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE USAGE-our vets are focused on providing the best healthcare for your pet and prescribe medications appropriately to their specific needs. In doing so our vets will only dispense the amount of medication required to avoid the unnecessary waste of medicinal products, especially with regards to antibiotics.

Our vets follow very careful protocols with respect to antibiotic use to help try and reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance and minimise the potential harmful environmental impact.

We, therefore, do encourage owners to bring back any unused medications to the practice at your appointments so we can safely dispose if these for you.

2.RECYCLING OF MEDICINAL PACKAGING-as part of our daily protocols we are very conscious to try and recycle as much material as possible and are always looking at ways to minimise our waste output.

We welcome clients to bring back blister packs and packaging from their dispensed medications at their next appointment.

3.CONTACT & MILEAGE- we have various ways for clients to stay in touch and offer post op checks via pets app and email to reduce client mileage and environmental impact. When first registered we will allocate the branch closest to you and when possible arrange appointments at this branch.

Please see our Facebook/petsapp/practice noticeboards for further updates.

If you have any further questions or suggestions with regards our environmental policy, we welcome our clients views-please email the practice nurses@dundasvetgroup.co.uk