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Workshop with focus on sustainability in Medtech and Life science - Umeå 28/5

Together with project partners Medeon, Medicon Village, Swecare and Sahlgrenska Science Park, NCSH has recieved 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. In Umeå we collaborate with Region Västerbotten. 

Three workshops have been held in different cities in Sweden to increase the knowledge base and identify best practice solutions within Medtech and Life science. This workshop will be the last within this project. The material collected through the workshop will be used to develop both a sustainability guideline for startups Life sciences and a vision for sustainable healthcare. During the workshop 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. 

This event will be held in Swedish. 

Preliminary Agenda

9.00 Mingle and coffee 

9.30 Welcome, Clas Alm, Research and education director, Region Västerbotten 

9.40 to 10.50

• Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH)
• Life Cycle Analysis - Järven Healthcare AB
• A solution that benefits the environment & care - Medicvent AB

10.50-11.10 Networking and coffee break 

11.10-12.00 

• Sofia Mackin - Sustainability manager in Region Västernorrland
• The hospital as a test bed for innovations - Ulf Olofsson, Senior Consultant in Real Estate
• Desinfection without alcohol in an environmentally friendly way, is it possible? Anders Gripenberg, XiniX International AB

12.00-12.45 Workshop 

• How can companies in Life Science address sustainability and what are the opportunities for the future?
• Discussion in groups. 

12.45- 13.00 Summing up and conclusions 

13.00 Close up meeting and lunch 

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What: Workshop in collaboration with Region Västerbotten 

Where: Skiffersalen-Umeå University hospital (South entrance)

When: 09.00 May 28 2019

Fee: Free of charge. No-show will be invoiced 250 SEK + VAT

Organizers: Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH) and Region Västerbotten/ Project Innovationplus.eu

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In this newsletter you can read about:

• Upcoming workshop in Umeå
• Kick off for energy efficient healthcare
• Greetings from the Minister of Social Affairs 
• India - a market for sustainable healthcare
• Summary from previous workshops 
• Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare 2019 
• Delegation to Quebec, Canada
• Training in sustainable healthcare
• New member

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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.

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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

In our newsletter for March you can read about:

• Upcoming events
• Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare 2019
• Member activities
• New members

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