Nordic Center for Sustainable healthcare's newsletter for August is out now.
You can read it by clicking the picture to the right.
Some of the highlights:
NCSH welcomes its newest member - Velux Svenska AB.
Velux Svenska AB is part of the Velux Group, a multinational company with headquarters in Denmark. For over 75 years, the VELUX Group has created better living environments for people around the world - using daylight and fresh air. Our products help create bright, healthy, energy-efficient places in which to live, work, learn and play.
The VELUX Group has manufacturing and sales operations in more than 40 countries, with an extensive distribution network. Our products include roof windows and modular skylights, as well as a range of decorative elements, blinds, roller shutters, installation solutions and remote controls.
NCSH is organizing a study visit and workshop at Skaraborg sjukhus in Skövde hosted by Västra Götalandsregionen on the 5th October. It will be a half-day study tour and half-day presentation with focus on energy efficiency and resource management.
Already confirmed speakers come from Västfastigheter and Region Västra Götaland as well as from our member companies Enrad, OCO Nordic and Schneider Electrics. During the summer we have also got confimation from two more speakers who join us all the way from Denmark. Julie Strandsen Hooge, energikonsulent, and Heine Knudsen, Enhetschef, will take the opportunity to tell us how Region Hovedstaden works with theese areas.
Where: Skaraborgs Sjukhus Skövde
When: October 5th
Program: See the program here >>
Registration:
Don't forget to register to the event soon as the participant number is limited!
On the 4th of July, NCSH hosted a session at Almedalen on teh theme " How do we make the healthcare sector more sustainable and create business opportunities at the same time?"
The panel debate was held in cooperation with Bonnier Sustainability Media at their Hållbarhets Arena. And discussed topics related to making the healthcare more sustainable while at the same time, see the business oportunities.
The following experts participated in the session:
- Daniel Eriksson, founder of NCSH
- Björn Anderdal, Aktuell Hållbarhet
- Sofie Svensson, Visiba Care
- Gustav Hemming, Stockholms Läns Landsting
- Sasan Shaba, Energimyndigheten
- Cecilia de Pedro, Apotek hjärtat
If you weren't able to visit us there, you can now watch a video from the session in swedish. Click here to see the video >>
NCSH is hosting a session at Almedalen on the 4th of July on the theme "How do we make the healthcare sector more sustainable and create business opportunities at the same time?"
The panel debate is a cooperation with Bonnier Sustainability Media and will be held on the 4th of July at Aktuellt Hållbarhets Hållbarhetsarena in Fornsalen. Note that the event will be in swedish. Read more about the event here >>
If you are in Visby - stop by and discuss sustainable healthcare with the experts!
NCSH newest member, Landssjúkrahúsið, is the National Hospital in the Faraoe Islands. You can read more about them below:
Landssjúkrahúsið (LS) is the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands, specialising in 29 health care areas.
Our aim is to offer the Faroese population and international patients a high quality health service in as many areas as possible. In those areas of health care where the hospital is not specialised, our aim is to offer patients the best possible treatment through close co-operation with other hospitals in the Nordic region.
Landssjúkrahúsið serves as the National Hospital of the Faroe Islands and can generally be considered to be on a scandinavan level in the speciality areas present on the Hospital. LS is a teaching hospital and is cooperating with universities and educational institutions in the scandinavian countries and Poland. LS has 700 FTE (850 employees).
Welcome to the network!
To see all members and partners in the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare, click this link >>
NCSH has as a part of the project Innovation Cluster for energy efficent healthcare funded by Swedish Energy Agency and particpating organizations launched a report with best-practice from Swedish Energy Efficent Healthcare. The report is in Swedish, but if there is a demand it will be translated into english.
Report energy efficent healthcare >>
Please contact us if you want more information.
The online-version with best-practice will continue to be updated with best-practice from Swedish Energy efficent healthcare and eventually become a knowledge bank for all stekholders interested in the field.
You can read more about the swedish cluster for energy efficent healthcare here: >>
We welcome our newest member, Rigshospitalet in Denmark, to our network and let them introduce themselves:
Rigshospitalet is a highly specialized hospital and the largest in Denmark to date. Covering two main sites, the hospital receives 1.100.000 visits annually from ambulant patients, and conducts 140.000 surgeries (statistics from 2015). Rigshospitalet strives to become as sustainable as possible in areas such as energy consumption, waste water treatment, waste sorting and green public procurement.
Last week, the NCSH was visited by the Swedish Science Radio (Vetenskapsradion) as they were developing a show with focus on sustainability in healthcare. Daniel Eriksson, founder of NCSH, was interviewed by Ylva Carlqvist Warnborg on the topic “How to make the healthcare more environmental friendly”.
The healthcare is an important actor regarding the sustainability aspects. Partly because the hospitals have a large environmental impact but also because they can function as an inspiration for the rest of society. The healthcare has the opportunity to be a forerunner and a testbed for new innovations, says Daniel Eriksson.
We also invited Kristina de Geer, Environmental coordinator at Region Skåne, to talk about the power of procurement and how it can effect the healthcares waste. She discussed, among other, their part in an innovation procurement on sustainable aprons for the hospital staff.
On October 5th we will organize a study tour to Skaraborgs Sjukhus Skövde hosted by Västra Götalands regionen with focus on Energy efficency and resource management. It's a half-day study tour and half-day presentations from representatives from both Västra Götalandsregionen and Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
Where: Skaraborgs Sjukhus Skövde
When: October 5th
For who: Members in NCSH and their sub clusters and those invited by Västra Götalandsregionen
Registration:
Agenda:
09.30 Welcome to Skövde! Sigmar Gericke, Tommy Johansson and Jonna Bjuhr Männer, Region Västra Götaland
10.00 - Daniel Eriksson, NCSH
10.30 - Presentations from the network
* Andreas Bäckäng, Enrad
* Per Andersson, OCO Nordic
* One more company presentation
11.15 - Speaker to be announced.
12.00 - Lunch
13.00 - Nordic procurement network on sustainable healthcare, Linnea Turnstedt, NCSH
13.30 - Jonna Bjuhr Männer, Västra Götalandsregionen
14.15 - Fika
14.45 - Information on the investments in Skaraborgs Hospital and introduction to guided tour, Hans Kardell, Västfastigheter.
15.00 - Guided tour
16.30 - End
Please contact Linnea Turnstedt at
Read our lastest newsletter for March 2017.
In this newsletter:
NB: the date for the network meeting at Schneider has the wrong date. The correct date is 27th of April
The Swedish Energy Agency is funding a Swedish national Innovation Cluster hosted and managed by the NCSH. The cluster was formed in 2016 and is currently under developement. The energy cluster is mapping best-practice for Swedish energy efficent healthcare. We are trying to get at least one good example from each Swedish region. If you are a region, a hospital or a company that have a project, installment, a new building, a new innovation, a new method etc that you feel are a best-practice, please contact us. You can also use this form to fill in the data, link to the document >>
NCSH have a lot of events, workshops, meetings and study visits booked for 2017. If you are interested to host a study visit, a network meeting or something else in the second half of 2017, please contact us.
In some cases the programme is not ready yet, but please mark the dates in your calendar if the topic is interesting:
Besides the events above we have following plans:
- October -Odense Denmark - Meeting with the nordic procurment network and NCSH.
- February 2018 - THE nordic conferense on sustainable healthcare.
We welcome another new member in NCSH, Healthcare DENMARK and we let them introduce themselves:
Denmark is an international frontrunner in the field of healthcare, and Healthcare DENMARK supports this leading position by promoting Danish visibility internationally.
Healthcare DENMARK coordinates delegation visits to Denmark tailored for foreign decision makers and press delegations with the purpose to experience innovative Danish healthcare solutions in practice and meet the people behind, all part of an extensive network of public and private actors. In addition, Healthcare DENMARK participates in delegations, conferences and exhibitions both nationally and internationally to support and strengthen Danish interests.
Healthcare DENMARK is a public-private non-profit partnership with a unique national and political mandate to promote Danish healthcare excellence and innovation. Backing this initiative is a partner group of both public and private key actors within Danish healthcare, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Danish Regions, Region of Southern Denmark, the Confederation of Danish Industry, the Confederation of Danish Enterprise, Falck, KMD, Systematic, OpenTeleHealth, Copenhagen Healthtech Cluster, Public Intelligence, and Vendlet.
Her Royal Highness Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark is patron of Healthcare DENMARK.
Our newsletter for February 2017 has been sent out. You can read about new members, future events and much more.
Make sure to send us an e-mail if you want to subrsice to our newsletter.
On January 30th, we welcomed 15 environmental managers/coordinators from Region Copenhagen to Malmö and NCSH for a study visit. The aim of the day for Region Copenhagen was to get input and inspiration in the area of healthcare waste management.
We started the day at TEM/NCSH:s office in Malmö where Daniel Eriksson from TEM/NCSH gave a presentation on Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and Sofie Dam from Region Copenhagen gave a presentation on the current work in waste management in Copenhagen healthcare.
Afterwards, a number of speakers presented projects within sustainable healthcare:
After the morning session at TEM/NCSH, the group porceeded to Sysav where Rustan Nilsson gave an inspiring lecture on waste, waste streams and waste minimization. Moreover, Sysav presented their system for infectious waste, biologic waste and sharps and needles. The study visit ended with a tour of the facilities and we got to see how and where they handle infectious waste.
In the afternoon, we visited Landskrona Hospital where we focused on waste management in a hospital environment. We were welcomed by Eva Bolinder, environmental manager at SUND, and Irene Winér, environmental coordinator at Landskrona Hospital, who gave us a full presentation on how they structure and manage the different waste streams. During an informative study tour we could follow the waste from wards to the different containers from where the waste is transported from the hospital.
Book a study tour/GreenTech Visit in the Nordics
If your organisation is interested in a Study tour in the Nordics with focus on Sustainable Healthcare, don't hesitate to contact TEM/NCSH. We can arrange study tours on most subjects within Sustainable Healthcare all over the Nordics. We have both the hospitals and the companies in our network and can tailor visits and company presentations that meet most needs.
Photos from: Linnea Turnstedt, Eva Bolinder and Daniel Eriksson
We welcome Floow2Healthcare as a new member in NCSH and we let them introduce themselves:
At FLOOW2 Healthcare we believe that a sustainable healthcare systems is not complete without optimizing usage of already available capacity. Particularly in the this sector, where every organization generally needs the same equipment, facilities, knowledge and disposables, it’s likely that another department within your own organization or organization within your network or region has available what you are looking for.
We created FLOOW2Healthcare.com, the sharing marketplace for healthcare organizations, and provide organizations and networks with closed online sharing communities on which they can make others aware of their (temporarily) idle assets or demand. This is innovative behavior is called shar
We had a fantastic day at the first Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm last week!
In collaboration with Aktuell Hållbarhet, Dagens Medicin and Bonnier Sustainability Media, Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare organized a one day conference with speakers from all over Europe to focus on the latest developments in areas such as: sustainability priorities at major Nordic hospitals, state of the art Nordic projects, as well as new and innovative solutions on the market in everything from energy efficiency to pharmaceuticals.
You find the final programme and speakers here >>
You can find the speakers presentations here >>
During the day we got the chance to listen to many interesting presentations and discussion both on the main stage and during the break-out sessions. For the first time we also got to hand out awards to three outstanding actors for their work in making the healthcare more sustainable. We would like to especially congratulate the NCSH-members Paxxo for winning Sustainable Healthcare company of the year and Landspítali for winning Sustainable Healthcare Organizer of the year!
You can read an article about the winners here >>
We are very happy for the interest we received and the opportunity to meet and discuss with so many interesting people and organisations. We are already looking forward to the conference next year!
A special thanks to all of our partners:
February 16 the first meeting was held for the new Nordic Sustainable Healthcare network at Swedish EPA in Stockholm. Over 30 people participated and we had participants form Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Åland and Faroe Island, so it was truly a Nordic meeting. The network will be a part of Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and both suppliers and procurers can be members. During the afternoon, a workshop was held and the group discussed on how the network should function and be financed. The interest was very high and the participants had many ideas on areas to focus on during future meetings and workshops. We also had presentations from three members in NCSH, Schneider Electrics, Green Furniture and Iceland University Hospital.
The network follows a previous project funded by Nordic Council of Ministers and the Danish EPA focusing on developing a Nordic Guideline for sustainable textile procurement in healthcare. The guideline will be presented within a few weeks and the result was presented in the morning by David Watson PlanMiljø together with presentations from Marcin Kautsch who presented a work on procurment in Poland and The Nordic Ecolabelwho presented their work.
If you want to participate in the network, need access to the minutes from the meeting, or has ideas on how we should organize it, future themes etc, feel free to contact us at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
You can download some of the presentations here:
Daniel Eriksson - Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
David Watson - PlanMiljø
Marcin Kautsch - LCB-Healthcare
Anna Norberg, Ulf Eriksson & Caroline Carlsson - Nordic Ecolabel
Hulda Steingrímsdóttir - The National University Hospital of Iceland
Johan Berhin - Green Furniture Concept
Irina Lindquist - Schneider Electric
The programme of the day was as follows:
10.00 Opening – Birgitte Kjær Danish EPA
10.10 Marcin Kautsch, European Health Management Association – Environmental and cost gains by using functional criteria in the procurement of hospital staff uniforms.
10.35 Nordic Ecolabel Sweden – Anna Norberg, Ulf Eriksson, Caroline Carlsson – Eco labelled products including textiles in Healthcare.
11.10 Presentation of the final draft and a group discussion around the final guide including dissemination/afterlife. David Watson and Rikke Fischer-Bogason -PlanMiljø
12.15 Lunch
13.00 Presentation of NCSH and the network for procurement – a Nordic procurer network as a sub cluster to NCSH – Daniel Eriksson TEM/NCSH
13.15 Presentations from members in NCSH and their views on sustainable healthcare procurement:
Green Furniture – Johan Berhin – Founder / CEO
The National University Hospital of Iceland – Hulda Steingrímsdóttir - Environmental Manager
Schneider Electrics - Irina Lindquist - Healthcare Segment Manager
14.00 Discussion in groups: How can we make a strong Nordic network on procurement in healthcare?
– how to organize the network
– financing models
– next meeting
– how do participants want the network to function
– themes for 2017 and 2018 – prioritizing process
15.00 End
During the conference last week a survey among environmental managers at Nordic hospitals was presented. The survey was conducted by Towe Breuss at Linné University and based on the reactions, mails and calls we have got, there is a big interest for the survey due to some interesting findings. The presentation is avaialbe for download here, for more information regarding the survey, please contact us at NCSH (Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare).
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