Business & Industry
Sustainable Healthcare
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How partnerships are key to tackling the complex challenge of NCDs
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) hurt people, disrupt communities, drain health systems and undermine sustainable development. Globally, they are the number one cause of death and disability, accounting for more than two thirds of total mortality.1 The facts are grim: it is estimated that the top five NCDs combined cost a staggering USD 47 trillion between 2011...
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Adopting a sustainable approach to healthcare decision making
Changing the ethos within a pharmaceutical company can help deliver more sustainable healthcare, if actions follow ethical commitments. With innovative product designs, reducing carbon emissions and reaching out into the communities they serve, healthcare companies can improve the environment and make the world a better and healthier place. Biopharmaceutical company CEO Ugo Di Francesco is...
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Integrating sustainability into the health system for present and future patients
By delivering wholesale sustainability initiatives, we can help the NHS become the world’s first net carbon zero health system. Following the commitments we made at COP26, NHS Supply Chain are working with NHS partners to raise awareness of the relationship between health and the climate crisis, the NHS net zero ambition and its alignment with...
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The value of innovation in achieving sustainability goals
Innovation is paramount and is an opportunity to further strengthen UK based and global manufacturers who are established in the UK with a competitive advantage from competition by working more sustainably. Moving towards a more sustainable healthcare system in the UK will reduce carbon emissions and help to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis....
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Hi-tech healthcare journeys
New digital solutions are changing the way the NHS plans patient visits, cutting down the number of miles travelled and reducing fuel usage. Technology is changing the way people access healthcare. This has been accelerated during the pandemic. However, no amount of technical advancement will ever remove the need for face-to-face appointments and visits. This...
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Patient apps – improving care and the environment
The continuing rise of patient apps is improving care and delivering on sustainability. A large percentage of NHS emissions are created by patient visits to their GP and to hospital. For example, there are over 300 million patient consultations in General Practice every year, and over 125 million outpatient appointments in hospitals. Traditionally, the majority...
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Boosting greener healthcare
Healthcare services are facing a critical challenge to reduce carbon emissions and make patient care more environmentally friendly. Health services are high emitters of greenhouse gases due to energy required to run hospitals and surgeries and the travel associated with patient care. As a result, the healthcare sector is under increasing pressure to deliver services...
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Caring for chronic diseases in lower-resource settings
In the wake of COVID-19, lower-resource settings need sustainable healthcare more than ever to build back better. Promising solutions are at hand. Each year, 41 million people die from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases.1 This group of chronic diseases, called non-communicable diseases (NCDs), burden health systems and put people at increased risk...
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The role of industry and innovation in healthcare sustainability
When healthcare innovation is done right, it is proven to improve patient outcomes; enhance patient experience; create efficiencies in care; and save the NHS money. Healthcare innovation can also have a significant impact on the environment – whether that is indirectly, for example, through reducing unnecessary patient travel. Or more directly, by introducing new environmentally...
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Making the transition to sustainable healthcare
Collaboration is key to reducing carbon emissions, meeting net zero goals and delivering sustainable healthcare. Health services deliver enormous positive contributions to society in improving the health of the nation but, in doing so, are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The NHS contributes 4-5% of the UK’s total emissions, leading it to set ambitious...