First, do no harm: time for a systems approach to address the problem of health-care-derived pharmaceutical pollution

Affiliations

• ¹ College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter TR10 9FE, UK. Electronic address: k.thornber@exeter.ac.uk.
• ² Sustainable Healthcare Coalition, Newton Abbot, UK.
• ³ College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter TR10 9FE, UK.
• ⁴ Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water, and Waste, Exeter TR10 9FE, UK.
• ⁵ Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
• ⁶ Cornwall Council, Truro, UK.
• ⁷ Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.
• ⁸ University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter TR10 9FE, UK.
• ⁹ Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, UK.
• ¹⁰ County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Darlington, UK.
• ¹¹ University College Dublin School of History, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹² NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Bodmin, UK.
• ¹³ AstraZeneca UK, Macclesfield, UK.
• ¹⁴ NHS Highland, Inverness, UK.
• ¹⁵ Environment Agency, Bristol, UK.
• ¹⁶ University of Exeter, Exeter TR10 9FE, UK.
• ¹⁷ Alnwick medical group, Alnwick, Northumberland, UK.
• ¹⁸ NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, Gloucester, UK.