It is recognised that health and care systems are undergoing transformative global change to adapt to the needs of patients and communities, with increasing pressure to be financially, socially and environmentally sustainable. Appraising the sustainability of care pathways is seen as a crucial step to enabling a more sustainable health system. To facilitate the completion Continue reading “Appraisal of Environmental Impact of Hospital Activities at ULS de Braga, Portugal”
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Environmental Impact of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy
This case study from Sustainable Healthcare Coalition member, Baxter Healthcare Limited assesses the care pathway impacts of four different scenarios for intravenous antimicrobial therapy administration, including delivery to inpatients and three Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) scenarios. The inpatient scenario was found to have significantly higher climate change, water use and waste impacts per patient Continue reading “Environmental Impact of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy”
Appraisal of Environmental Impact of Hospital Activities at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada
Appraising the sustainability of care pathways is seen as a crucial step to enabling health systems undergoing transformative global change to adapt to the needs of patients and communities, with increasing pressure to be financially, socially and environmentally sustainable. To facilitate the completion of care pathway assessments, it is necessary to generate data that characterises Continue reading “Appraisal of Environmental Impact of Hospital Activities at St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada”
An environmental impact assessment of Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) surgery
It is recognised that health and care systems are undergoing transformative global change to adapt to the needs of patients and communities, with increasing pressure to be financially, socially and environmentally sustainable. Appraising the sustainability of care pathways is seen as a crucial step to enabling a more sustainable health system. Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA), Continue reading “An environmental impact assessment of Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) surgery”
Green maternity care
Maternity services are one of the NHS’s high-volume services, with over 673,000 births in the UK in 2022. Each of these will have been preceded by approximately 30 weeks of regular antenatal care and followed up with postnatal care.
Carbon Calculators for Healthcare
The growing demand for carbon accounting has driven a proliferation of carbon calculators enabling organisations to calculate their overall carbon footprint or wider environmental impact. Given the number of carbon calculators now available – some extending beyond carbon to other environmental impacts – this landscape review assesses 21 tools. The tools reviewed span eight levels of measurement across healthcare: care pathways, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, products, healthcare organisations, clinical specialties, and project/service evaluation. Each tool is reviewed against a consistent set of criteria to understand how well the current landscape serves the range of users and use cases now demanding carbon and other data from the health sector.
SHC Partner Engagement Meetings
2025 – Spring Partner Engagement Meeting held on 29th April
Sustainability of Type 2 Diabetes Management
Novo Nordisk applied the sustainable care pathways guidance to develop a case study on the management of type 2 diabetes. Combining health economics data with environmental impact data available in the guidance it was possible to compare two diabetes management scenarios and assess the environmental trade-off between the increased use of pharmaceuticals to manage the Continue reading “Sustainability of Type 2 Diabetes Management”
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease Care
Globally, it is recognised that health and care systems are undergoing transformative change to adapt to the needs of patients and communities, with increasing pressure to be financially, socially and environmentally sustainable. Appraising the sustainability of care pathways is seen as a crucial step to enabling a more sustainable health system. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Continue reading “Reducing the Environmental Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease Care”
A Perspective on Environmental Sustainability Assessments in the Healthcare Sector
A discussion paper titled “Challenges and recommendations for environmental sustainability assessments of pharmaceutical products in the healthcare sector” has been published in Green Chemistry by Wouter De Soete of Ghent University, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition and the American Chemical Society. Healthcare represents a significant portion of the global economy so, it Continue reading “A Perspective on Environmental Sustainability Assessments in the Healthcare Sector”
