Business & Industry
Sustainable healthcare Q2 2022
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Delivering care more sustainably: how technology can be utilised
Health tech is a major contributor to sustaining and saving lives, providing products from medical consumables to orthopaedic implants, surgical robots and digitally enhanced technologies. The health tech industry has unique barriers in reaching its sustainability targets, with patient safety a priority that can never be compromised. For example, contaminated needles used in hospitals cannot...
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Medicines manufacturing innovation underpins resilient and sustainable healthcare
The pandemic and the climate emergency together provide a real opportunity for manufacturing innovation to deliver a resilient, sustainable medicines supply. Medicines supply chains are complex beasts. From raw material to finished dosage, a given medicine could have travelled across two or more continents and through multiple manufacturing sites. This is true both for patented...