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We are happy to welcome NOAS Sweden as the newest member of Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare!
We let them introduce themselves:
Everything started with a carpentry.
Noas Sweden is a complete supplier and manufacturer of special fittings for hotels, restaurants, public environments and offices. We are a manufacturer of own designed and developed products in Solid Surface, mostly Corian®, in the form of wash basins and surgery sinks. Solid Surface is the best material in hygiene for healthcare, school, public establishments, baths and kitchens.
Corian® solid surfaces work everywhere — it is the material of choice for architects and designers specializing in healthcare, food service, hospitality, office buildings and schools. Healthcare design’s first priority is to prevent infection. The surfaces you specify play a critical role in helping you create safer healthcare environments. The nonporous certified hygienic properties of DuPont™ Corian® solid surface material can help healthcare architects and designers create spaces that, with proper cleaning, fit the needs of their installations. DuPont™ Corian® solid surface meets the high expectations of the most demanding healthcare design environments. With unlimited potential for surfaces in public spaces, operating room walls, scrub rooms, showers basins and baseboards, Corian® is: Easy to clean and maintain. When properly cleaned, Corian® does not support the growth of mould and mildew. LGA certified for hygienic properties (stability against bacteria and fungi according to European standard DIN EN ISO 846). A nonporous surface with a smooth, seamless appearance. Extremely durable and long-lasting, standing up to hard knocks in high-traffic environments that can easily damage other surfaces, such as drywall and laminate. Easily renewed and repaired. GREENGUARD Certified® as low VOC-emitting material Stain resistant Noas Sweden® is part of DuPont™ Corian® Quality Network giving end customers the assurance that products meets all the tough requirements set by DuPont. All products are developed in close cooperation with healthcare professionals and suppliers.
Attribute
• Easy to clean and maintain
• LGA certified for hygienic properties
• A non porous material with a soft and seamless surface
• Extremely durable, long life
• Can be easily renewed and repaired
• GREENGUARD Certified®
• High resistance to stains
• Round soft shapes, no sharp corners
2019 is “India - Sweden Health year” which sums up a 10 years memorandum of understanding on collaboration between the two countries. To celebrate this occasion a Swedish delegation, headed by the Swedish Social minister Lena Hallengren, visited New Delhi 22-25 of February. The agreement was renewed, and many new connections were made to continue collaboration.
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare had the opportunity to join the delegation with the objective to investigate how Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare can start up activities in India. India is included in the strategy for the project -Platform for Internationalization: Energy- and Climate smart healthcare and is one of the strategic markets to identify partners and develop strategies within sustainable healthcare.
India is one of the largest countries in the world and diverse in many aspects. The Indian population is 1,35 billion people and one of the fastest growing economies. The population of young people is growing and many of the poor has connection to internet via smart phones. Healthcare services stands for about 1% of GDP which is one of the lowest numbers in the world. EU has a corresponding number at about 10%. A new reform -Modicare- is taking place right now to offer free healthcare to everyone that have not been able to pay for the services before. This will give additional 500 million people access to the healthcare system.
The delegation had the opportunity to visit the AIIMS Hospital I Jodhpur. All India Institute of Medical Science. It is a newly built hospital including nursing college, research and teaching as well as hospital services taking care of 2500 patients each day. There had been several AIIMS hospitals built up to date and more planned throughout India. The AIIMS hospitals will even out the unbalance of reaching patients throughout the country.
Meeting an increasing demand of healthcare from the whole population require new innovations and business models. Treatments must become cheaper, scaled up and sustainable.
Increasing demand of healthcare will have an impact on energy consumption and the climate. Indian hospitals are being equipped with the same technology as any other modern hospital. This will of course require a stable infrastructure supporting the hospital, energy grid with renewable energy and indoor climate control systems with cooling and heating. And as always: saving energy means saving money which enables more resources for treatments.
To reach the UN Sustainability development goals, from a worldwide perspective it would not be enough if Sweden goes 100% sustainable on its own. To be serious about reaching the goals we must work together in a larger scale. If India can implement sustainable solutond to its growing healthcare sector based on Swedish technology and experience, Hospitals can be used as a leverage to increase sustainability in cities and in society in general.
Next steps:
During the delegation to India NCSH have made connections with Indian and Swedish organizations that can lead to future activities in India, available for the members in NCSH to join. We plan to take part in the Indian-Swedish collaboration as well as developing our own connections at a project level. Discussions on how to proceed are ongoing.
If you are interested in India as amarket and taking part in future activities. Please let us know. Contact:
We had the priveledge to recieve a greeting from the the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs, Lena Hallengren, during the kick off for our platform for internationalization of energy efficient healthcare. Unfortunately, she could not take part in person but sent us a video in which she explains the importance of creating a sustainable future and the importance of new investments, technologies and innovations to allow healthcare to contribute in the fight against climate change.
"Time is running out and there's so much to do!"
On march 28, the second workshop was organized in Malmö for the project ”The most sustainable healthcare in the world 2030” funded by The Swedish Innovation Agency - Vinnova.
In this project, NCSH works together with partners Medeon, Medicon Village, Swecare and Sahlgrenska Science Park to make a pre-study. It will be the basis for creating a vision to achieve the most sustainable healthcare in the world by 2030 and establish an arena for innovation, collaboration and communication of swedish sustainable healthcare.
The day started with an introduction to sustainable healthcare and NCSH by Daniel Eriksson, founder of NCSH. After the introduction, we listened to Ralf Schmitt, Corporate Head of Sustainability, Getinge. He talked about Getinges way to sustainability, different approaches and how to create a sustainable value. After that, it was time for Johan Brun, Senior Medical Advisor, The research-based pharmaceutical industry (LIF). Some of the questions she talked about was how to reach a fully sustainable use of pharmaceuticals and how to reach sustainability througout the entire chain.
After a small coffee break, we listened to Peter Kelly, International Director, Pharmafilter. He told us about new possible solutions for dealing with waste and wastewater. The next person on stage was Louise Strand, Purchasing Director, Region Skåne. Louise talked about the different dimensions of sustainability and how to introduce sustainability in the procurement.
Last but not least, we got the chance to listen to four shorter presentations about the challenges in sustainable healthcare. First was Thomas Bäckström, BTB Emulsions, who talked about perfect emulsions with people, profit, planet in mind. Lars Malmgren, Medarca, talked about how to secure the drug activities and taking away manual administration within elderly care. Pete Andersen, Watersprint, told us about a intelligent water purification and last was Peter Höjerback, Avidicare. He told us about a unique system for ultra-clean air in operating theatres.
When the last presentation was finished, everyone got to sit in smaller groups in a workshop to discuss thoughts and ideas. These were later shared and discussed with the rest of the groups before it was time for lunch.
The results from the workshop then? It will be presented in the final report, the roadmap and the vision! So stay tuned for future updates from the project.
We thank everyone who participated, and especially all the speakers for interesting presentations!
We have a new colleague, Sofia Dahling, here at TEM!
Sofia is a 25 year old environmental science student at Malmö University. Some of you may
recognize her, since she did her internship here at TEM last year.
She has now joined us as a part-time project assistant at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and will help us and participate in various projects and events.
We welcome Sofia and look forward to working together!
As one of the NCSH aims is raising the status and awareness of sustainable healthcare, we are pleased to welcome Kateryna Denysova, HIV and Health Programme Associate in UNDP Ukraine, in Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare! Kateryna is conducting a short-term mobility visit to perform peer shadowing within the grant from Swedish Institute (SI) Summer Academy for Young Professionals.
Kateryna decided to come to NCSH having in mind that Nordic countries remain the world-leaders in innovations for sustainable healthcare, and its solutions and knowledge can already be easily transfered to other parts of the world. In its turn, UNDP is committed to supporting countries achieve Sustainable Development Goals through the provision of integrated development solutions to address nexus of health, environmental degradation and climate change. As there is a growing recognition that the health and environment outcomes are interdependent, new approaches and potential collaborations to address the issue of climate change and sustainability in healthcare are needed.
Worth mentioning, that UNDP in Ukraine already has an experience in implementing activities related to the sustainable healthcare. Particularly, Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP) has been developed jointly by UNDP and Health Care Without Harm (NCSH member) and it addresses the intersection between health, human rights and environment in 10 project countries, including Ukraine. It promotes procurement practices that consider environmental and social impacts, as well as cost-efficiency and affordability.
Kateryna already had an opportunity to attend a number of events on invitation of NCSH. For instance, she took part in the official kick-off meeting of the project ”Platform for internationalization: energy and climate smart healthcare”, which gathered together around 40 members and other stakeholders to discuss and showcase the best nordic practices in energy efficiency and climatesmart healthcare. Besides, she also participated in the training on Sustaibale Healthcare, where she not only learned more innovative solutions of work with sustainability in hospitals, but also improved her Swedish, that was the official language of the training.
We wish Kateryna a pleasant stay in Sweden and look forward to having further colaboration with UNDP!
On March 21, the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare hosted the official kick-off meeting of the project ”Platform for internationalization: energy and climate smart healthcare” and gathered together around 40 members and other stakeholders to discuss and showcase the best nordic practices in energy efficiency and climatesmart healthcare.
Daniel Eriksson, founder of NCSH, introduced the concept of sustainable healthcare and the work of NCSH. ”The main goal of the project is to lower the energy consumption and CO2 emissions from healthcare, spread smart technologies and practices and in the long run boost Swedish export. The project also aims to strengthen the Swedish market for new solutions and deliver surveys and reports to strengthen the area” – said Johannes Brundin, project manager and co-founder of NCSH.
Lena Hallengren, Social Minister, welcomed participants and wished fruitful kick off meeting through a video greeting.
The kick-off meeting was intensive, packed with many various presentetions from HCSH members. Ulf Malmquist, Swedish Energy Agency, presented the brief overview of the current activities supported by the Swedish Energy Agency as well as the funding opportunities and emphasized the target to reach an increased global market share for Swedish innovative companies in the energy field. Anna Vesterberg, Regionfastigheter – Region Skåne, and Hans Johansson, University Hospital of Umeå, shared their experience of development and introducing energy efficiency principles in the Swedish hospitals. While talking about healthcare sustainability trends from Denmark, Sam Kondo Steffensen, DTU Executive School of Business, mentioned the shift to the new way of thinking about the hospitals, where both sick and healthy people go. Ulf Olofsson, Region Vasterbotten Real Estate, highlighted the obvious need for innovations and invited participants 
to consider the hospitals as a potential testbed for solution development. Andreas Bäckäng, Enrad, and Jens Termén, ClimateMachines™ Refrigerant Free Cooling for Hospitals, introduced innovative solutions for cooling and heating the hospitals. Magnus Clarin, OCO Nordic, presented the innovative solution of OCO metoden, that allows to save energy and increase the quality of cleaning by using dry ice. Johan Möller, Siemens, introduced their model of a Smart Hospital, which is able to reduce costs without compromising quality of service. Will Clark, Healthcare Without Harm Europe, shared their experience of work with climate-smart healthcare soultions in Europe. Jesper Wirén, Enjay, demonstrated the solution, which supports energy recovery in large scale kitchens to save expenses and well as minimize the negative climate impact. Mutaz Yasin, Schneider Electric, presented EcoStructure, which is an integrated efficiency solutions, combining energy, automation and software and has a potential to be widely used in the healthcare facilities.
As a wrap-up, participants agreed on future directions and possible ways of colaboration to allow the newly established platform boost innovations and export of Swedish technology, best practice and know-hows to other countries.
NCSH is grateful to all who had an opportunity to participate in the kick-off meeting and look forward to welcoming you on our next events!
/Kateryna Denysova
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We are happy to welcome a fellow Malmö network/cluster as a new member in NCSH, Sustainable Business Hub.
They present themselves as:
Sustainable Business Hub is a triple helix cluster organisation that gathers energy and cleantech companies, municipalities, utilities, universities and research institutes. Our mission is to promote innovation and business development that contribute to meeting the 2030 goals. We do this by providing a platform where innovation, development and business for sustainable solutions are implemented. Our focus areas are waste, water, energy & energy efficiency and blue green infrastructure.
We we welcome EEF to Nordic center for sustainable healthcare!
They present themselves as:
Energy Efficiency Supplier´s Association (EESA) is bringing together five trade organizations and about 75 companies that provide energy efficiency solutions for buildings, companies and industries. Together, the
companies cover all major technology areas and deliver products and projects with a variety of different services including financing.
The member companies of EESA focus on energy efficiency at the end-user level, at the distribution stage or on technology that reduces power peaks in the energy system.
EESA works to improve energy efficiency in Sweden by supporting and assisting member companies with knowledge and by influencing decision makers. The most important areas of political advocacy work are the introduction of White certificates and influencing planning and building regulations.
This event will be held in English.
Together with project partners Medeon, Medicon Village, Swecare and Sahlgrenska Science Park, NCSH has received Vinnova funding for a pre-study to be the basis for creating a vision to achieve the most sustainable healthcare in the world by 2030 and establish an arena for innovation, collaboration and communication of Swedish sustainable healthcare.
To increase the knowledge base and identify best practice solutions within medtech and life science, workshops will be held in four different cities in Sweden. The material collected through the workshops will be used to develop both a sustainability guideline for startups life sciences and a vision for sustainable healthcare. During the workshops we will both listen to presentations and hold a workshop discussing questions such as how companies within this field address sustainability today as well as what challenges and opportunities they are facing.
A similar workshop will be held in Gothenburg April 11th and Umeå May 28.
9.00 Coffee and registration
9.30 Introduction
Daniel Eriksson, Founder and CEO, Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH)
Company presentations
10.40 Networking and coffee break
11.00 Company presentations
SME challenges in sustainable healthcare. Short presentations of:
12.00 Workshop
How can companies in Life Science address sustainability and what are the opportunities for the future?
12.45 Summing up and conclusions
Daniel Eriksson, CEO, Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH)
13.00 Close up meeting and lunch
What: Workshop in collaboration with Medicon Village and Medeon
Where: Hotel Quality View, Hyllie stationsväg 29, 215 32 Malmö
When: 09.00 March 28 2019
Fee: Free of charge. No-show will be invoiced 250 SEK + VAT
Registration: (name, organisation, contact information and allergies)
We are happy to add one more member and also one more country to our memberlist, Jessa hospital in Belgium.
They present themself:
The Jessa Hospital offers a wide range of innovative & high-quality medicine and patient care as a reference hospital, in collaboration with the partner hospitals in its network. We want to offer warm care to our patient & his family and actively involve them; both in the individual care process and in the policy of the hospital.
The hospital has 981 approved beds and 260 day places, spread over 4 campuses. This makes us one of the 5 largest non-university hospitals in Flanders, Belgium. With more than 380 doctors & physician specialists in training and more than 3100 employees, Jessa is the largest employer in Limburg.
In addition to all the traditional medical specialties offered in most hospitals, the hospital also offers a large number of reference functions - highly specialized, top clinical services and sub-specializations that are not offered in every hospital. This usually concerns treatments that require advanced equipment, special facilities and / or specific expertise, with a usually supra-regional character. For many of these specialties, the Jessa Hospital works closely with the hospitals in the region in order for a further expanding of the South West Limburg clinical network.
Some of our reference functions are: cardio surgery (incl. Minimally invasive surgery), Heart Center, Kidney dialysis, Hematology (incl. Sterile chambers), Oncology, Radiotherapy, Breast clinic, Neurosurgery, Infectious diseases & immunity, Travel Clinic, Abdominal surgery (incl. Rectum surgery, liver surgery), Center for molecular diagnostics, next generation sequencing (for personalized cancer treatments), Rehabilitation center for non-congenital brain disorders & amputation, Psychogeriatrics, Urology (oncology, andrology, reconstructive surgery, pediatric urology), ORL (incl. Cochlear implant), Ophthalmology (incl. Retinal surgery), Various child and youth medicine sub-specializations: neurology, gastrointestinal diseases, endocrinology, asthma & allergies, children's obesity center, growth disorders, diabetes, pediatric cardiology, etc.
For optimum patient care, we also work with primary care providers on a daily basis. Jessa is also part of the Flemish Hospital Network KULeuven and Hospilim, the partnership of Limburg hospitals. There is also close cooperation between the PXL university and Uhasselt. Continuous investment in top-quality medical technology, IT, quality, patient involvement and skilled doctors & employees is the cornerstone of Jessa Hospital's policy. In April 2016, Jessa was the first Belgian hospital to obtain the international NIAZ-Qmentum accreditation for the entire operation of the hospital. Meanwhile, our third consecutive NIAZ accreditation.
Jessa in numbers:
Welcome to the kick-off for the project Platform for internationalisation: Energy- and Climatesmart healthcare. Listen to interesting speakers, opportunites for networking and much more.
Read more and sign up: https://www.nordicshc.org/show-the-calendar/36.html
We are happy to welcome our newest member, Dinair, to the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare! Below, Dinair explains how their operations contribute to creating a more sustainable healthcare environment.
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is Critical to Patient and Worker Safety:
Clean air is vital in hospital and healthcare facility operations to protect patients, staff and visitors from airborne diseases and infections, as well as to provide a comfortable, healthy and odour-free environment. The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in the facility, referring to the air breathed by the building’s occupants, is of primary importance because of patients’ suppressed immune systems, making them more susceptible to adverse health effects. Poor IAQ ranks as one of the top five environmental risks to public health.
Airfilter solutions for Sustainable Healthcare:
Energy consumption of airfilter in HVAC system and operating theaters has become a focus of attention due to high energy prices, downtimes and demands for reducing CO2 emmisions. Related to the ventilation systems total energy consumption, airfilter have a significant part of this consumption. Correct choice of Airfilters will directly have impact of the sustainability.
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is a network with focus on creating a healthcare with higher environmental performance. Do you have a solution which could add to hospitals sustanability work? Contact us to learn how you could get inolved with other actors and relevant hospitals to spread your products and services. Learn more at www.sustainablehealthcare.se
We are happy to welcome Lindinvent as a new member in NCSH. Lindinvent present themselfs as following:
Sustainability is crucial. To provide healthcare buildings with productive and energy efficient solutions for indoor climate, lighting, sun shading and space management we use the latest technology for sensors, electronics, communication and web. This enables cost efficient demand controlled indoor climate with the lowest life cycle cost and minimal installation costs as well as highest flexibilty . At the same time we offer the highest level of data intensity and an intuitive webb interface and apps making it easy and understandable to operate the systems. Lower energy costs, higher flexibility, better understanding and smarter use of the building – all to enable as good healthcare as possible and minimize the carbon footprint.
In this newsletter you can read about:
- Kickoff for the project Platform for internationalization of sustainable healthcare with focus on energy and climate, March 21 in Malmö
- Steering group for energy project
- Workshops in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg with focus on sustainability in Life Science
- Delegation to India in February
- Summary from workshop in Oslo
- Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare 2019 in Espoo, Finland
- Training in sustainable healthcare, March 25 in Malmö
- Four new members - welcome!
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We are happy to welcome Enjay as new members in Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare!
Real estate owners throw away 10s of thousands of euro and many tons of fossile CO2 in saving today. Due to grease and soot in the warm exhaust air from restaurant ventilation its not possible to recover the energy. Enjay has developed and patented Lepido, the first maintenance free energy recovery unit in the world that can, without any pre-filtration, stand this hostile environment and be able to deliver the energy back into the building either as heat and/or AC saving a lot of money and environment. With a typical ROI of 2 years we believe that we have created a financial incentive to part of the environmental movement.
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is a network with focus on creating a healthcare with higher environmental performance. Do you have a solution which could add to hospitals sustanability work? Contact us to learn how you could get inolved with other actors and relevant hospitals to spread your products and services. Learn more at www.sustainablehealthcare.se
We are happy to welcome Sahlgrenska Science Park as new members in Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare!
"Sahlgrenska Science Park is a neutral arena for the industry, healthcare and academy to meet, build relations, develop innovations and create business. It is also an accelerator for Life Science entrepreneurs and companies.
With a global focus in mind, we aim to strengthen the Life Science industry in Western Sweden by actively contributing to:
- strengthening the competitiveness of the Life Science industry
- collaboration between business, healthcare and academia
- establishment of new and development of existing businesses
Sahlgrenska Science Park is jointly owned by the Region Västra Götaland (VGR), Business Region Göteborg, the University of Gothenburg (through GU Ventures), Chalmers University of Technology and the City of Mölndal."
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is a network with focus on creating a healthcare with higher environmental performance. Do you have a solution which could add to hospitals sustanability work? Contact us to learn how you could get inolved with other actors and relevant hospitals to spread your products and services. Learn more at www.sustainablehealthcare.se
Tore Havellen, Oslo University Hospital
This week Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare organized a workshop on sustainable healthcare in Oslo, Norway.
The workshop was part of our project on creating a white paper on sustainable healthcare. The white paper will encompass several areas which are key in making the Nordic countries world leaders in sustainable healthcare. Such areas include environmental management, innovation, culture and much more. During the event the participants had the opportunity to listen to several experts in the field, mingle with other relevant stakeholders and discuss the challenges and opportunities creating a Nordic sustainable healthcare.
The following actors gave presentations during the workshop:
- Creating a more sustainable healthcare – Linn Grundtman at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
- Nordic Collaboration - Arvid Løken, Senior Innovation Advisor at Nordic Innovation
- Creating a Nordic White paper - Linnea Turnstedt at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
- Thoughts from procurers - Tore Havellen, Senior Advisor at Oslo University Hospital
- Green infrastructure and climate adaptation at hospitals - David Brasfield, Miljøleder at Sunnaas sykehus
- Sustainable Healthcare in Norway; challenges and opportunities - Kathrine Myhre, CEO at Norway Healthtech
- Norwegian companies & sustainable innovation - Hans Eirik Melandsø, Programme Manager at health and wellbeing at Innovasjon Norge
- Sustainable solutions - presentations from suppliers: Schneider Electric, Bauer Watertechnology, Paxxo, Energy Machines and Glamox
This project is funded by Nordic Innovation.
Ida Virtala, Paxxo
After the workshop, the participants were all invited to join us at the Swedish Ambassadors Residence in Oslo where we concluded the day with a mingle. After the Swedish ambassador, Krister Bringéus, greeted us, Johannes Brundin from NCSH were able to officially launch another project that we are running on behalf of the Swedish Energy Agency.
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