Three new speakers for workshop 8/12

24 November 2015

Members of the NCSH can attend a workshop with focus on sustainable procurement in the healthcare sector. This will be held on the 8^th of December at Swecare in Stockholm. During the workshop the Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement, Upphandlingsmyndigheten, will be one the speakers. Additionally, three new member organizations are confirmed speakers: PlanMiljø, Martinsson and BBD Ozonator. Moreover new members in the NCSH will get a chance to introduce themselves.

At the end of the day you will have a better understanding of sustainable procurement in the healthcare. The workshop will give the participants insights and tools to work with the demands placed on them by the healthcare sector. Please note that the meeting will be held in Swedish.

See the invitation for more information on topics, speakers etc.

WHEN: 8 December 2015
WHERE: Swecare, Biblioteksgatan 25, Stockholm
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Nordic Guide and Cooperation on the Green Procurement of Hospital Textiles

24 November 2015

The NCSH is collaborating with PlanMiljø in a new project which focuses on the green procurement of hospital textiles. The aim of the project is to encourage and assist hospitals and regional authorities in the Nordic region in moving towards a more sustainable procurement of healthcare textiles. This will be achieved in 5 steps.

A country specific fact sheet will be developed for the Nordic countries. This will include current status, obstacles and potential for healthcare textiles procurement. The consortium will also establish and facilitate a network of stakeholders relevant to the procurement of textiles in the healthcare sector. In close cooperation with the network, a guide will be developed. The stakeholders will also be brought together in different workshops to discuss and exchange initiatives as well as establish voluntary agreements. A strategy will then be developed and carried out for the guide’s dissemination amongst Nordic healthcare procurers.

For more information about this project, contact Daniel Eriksson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.or 0707-94 42 13

Synergie Santé Environnement is joining the NCSH

18 November 2015

We are proud to announce that Synergie Santé Environnement is joining the NCSH.This means that we are now 32 members in the network!

Synergie Santé Environment's Directeur général, Jérôme Ribesse, presents the company:

SSE is a not for profit based in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) whose mission is to help healthcare institutions reduce their environmental and health impacts by applying the environmental health principles in their day to day actions.

Created in 2006, SSE has done consulting with about 20 health care institutions in Quebec. SSE has also gathered around its mission about 200 healthcare buildings (e. g. hospitals, long-term care facilities) creating an active practice community of health professionals.

Updated Nordic center for Sustainable Healtcare member offer for 2016

17 November 2015

We have updated the member offer and terms of participation for 2016. We have some new member categories, discount for members in Swecare etc.

Please contact us if you have any questions regarding membership in Nordic Center for Sustaianable Healthcare.

Why should you take part in the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare?

The Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH) is an intersectional arena for stakeholders, organizations and projects in the sector of sustainable healthcare.

The purpose of the Center is to provide a platform for cooperation in the areas of environment and sustainability in healthcare. The number of members in the NCSH is growing rapidly following the high demand for such a platform in the Nordic healthcare sector.

Some of the activities planned for the NCSH:

• Innovative project with groups of members.
• International collaboration and international contacts and collaboration opportunities.
• Local meeting points where healthcare professionals can meet with suppliers and researchers.
• International conferences that will tour Nordic Cities.
• Marketing and best-practice within healthcare and sustainability.
• Matchmaking and knowledge sharing.
• Online collaboration tools and best practice from both companies and healthcare.
• Trainings, workshops and site visits based on members’ interests.

Pharmafilter joins the NCSH

17 November 2015

We are proud to announce that Pharmafilter joins the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare!

Pharmafilter is a Dutch company that works with waste and waste water treatment. Pharmafilter's International Director, Peter Kelly presents the company:

Pharmafilter that designs, builds and operates an on-site waste and wastewater treatment plant for Hospitals. Pharmafilter delivers a truly innovate system and way of working. Tonto high-tech waste shredders are located in sluice or washrooms and other locations throughout the hospital. Decentralizing, lowering of waste logistics and decontamination of hospital general and health care risk waste takes place in the Pharmafilter plant. The effluent from the hospital is also fully purified in four steps and cleansed of all harmful substances such as medicinal residues, cytostatics, contrast liquids, endocrine substances, bacteria and viruses. The purified water is suitable for flushing the Tonto, toilets, cooling towers and other process applications.

Workshop with Swecare and Upphandlingsmyndigheten (the National Agency for Public Procurement)

16 November 2015

In December the NCSH member workshop will take place at Swecare in Stockholm. Focus will be on sustainable procurement in the healthcare sector and at the end of the day you will have new insights and new tools to better meet the demands of sustainable procurement. This will be a chance for companies to better understand the demands placed on them by the health care sector. It will also be a chance for new members to introduce themselves and their organizations. Please note that the meeting will be held in Swedish.

Some of the questions which will be discussed:

- How can you, in your position influence the procurements to be more sustainable?

- What challenges and obstacles do we face?

- What kind of support will be needed to move forward?

In the afternoon, 13.30-16.30, we will continue with a steering committee meeting for those members who want to be a part of the committee, or simply are willing to join in and discuss NCSH activities for 2016. See invitation for more details.

Newsletter november 2015

04 November 2015

In this newsletter:

December 2015: workshop with Swecare and Upphandlingsmyndigheten (the National Agency for Public Procurement)
The NCSH is growing: soon 30 members
Conference with Miljörapporten in November 2016

Other relevant news from sustainable healthcare

New members, Upphandlingsmyndigheten and PlanMiljø

02 November 2015

We are proud to present two new members, the swedish national agency for public procurment Upphandlingsmyndigheten and the danish company PlanMiljø.

From Upphandlingsmyndighetens web page:

The National Agency for Public Procurement has an overall responsibility for developing and supporting the procurement carried out by the contracting authorities and entities.
Our task is to work for an effective and socially and environmentally sustainable public procurement to the benefit of the society and the participants in the markets.We provide support to contracting authorities, entities and suppliers.

From PlanMiljø:s webbpage:

"PlanMiljø is a small company with a young and enterprising team. Our flat structure makes for an agile and flexible consulting firm, able to pursue innovative ideas, develop and apply new methods, and constantly strive to more than fulfill the expectations of our partners and clients. In addition to its solid client base of Danish ministries, municipalities and businesses, PlanMiljø has an excellent reputation abroad. We have completed projects in more than 60 countries for Danida, the European Commission, SIDA, the World Bank, and UN agencies. Moreover, we have a wealth of experience as part

Free webinar on PVC-free bloodbags

20 October 2015

The Nordic Center for Sustainble Healthcare member PVCfreeBloodBags.eu together with another member Karolinska University Hospitals and HCWH hosts a free webinar on:

How to bring safer blood bags to healthcare on October 22

Register

Paxxo - new member in NCSH

19 October 2015

We are glad to announce that Paxxo is joining NCSH.

Frm Paxxo:s webb:

PAXXO is a family owned company that was founded in Sweden 1980. Our business mission is to develop and produce a sustainable bagging system – Longopac. The Paxxo Longopac system enables smarter waste handling and innovative packaging applications creating smarter and better work environments for professionals. This innovative bagging system, which now has a global market, is based on an extremely thin and strong 3 layer polyethylene material.

Paxxo strives to improve efficiency and the work environment for professional users in many sectors. We also aim to reduce the environmental impact of our customers. Paxxo wishes to be a sustainable company, and our products need to be sustainable. We have focused on making an extremely thin yet strong film, and we have now halved the thickness, while the strength measured in terms of Dart Drop is better. Compared with a traditional waste bag, our products generate only 1/3 CO².
Our focus on sustainability is based on one of our core values: Long-term thinking.

Two new hospital members, one international partner and one NGO

02 October 2015

We are proud to annonce that the network of NCSH is continuing to grow rapidly. New members are Karolinska University Hospital, Kristianstad Central Hospital, C2DS and PVC-free bloodbags.

Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm is globally known for many things among them their Sustainability work. New Karolinska that is currently being built is going to be a global best-practice on sustainable healthcare. Karolinska has 15 000 employees and is a part of Stockholm County Hospital.

csk Central Hospital in Kristianstad (CSK) in northern Skåne is a pioneer when it comes to implementing and testing new cleantech solutions in healthcare. CSK has 2 300 employees and is a part of Region Skåne.

C2DS - Comité pour le Développement Durable en Santé is an organization based in France with offices in Germany. It was set up by a group of hospitals in order to establish a healthcare community committed to environmentally responsible healthcare. C2DS has endorsement of the French Ministry of Health. C2DS has around 500 hospitals in their network.

PVCfreeBloodBag 72dpi PVC-free bloodbags is a EU life + project aimed to develop PVC-free bloodbags. It is a joint project between the industry and healthcare. The project is led by Jegrelius Institute in Östersund Sweden.

Here you can find the rest of the members and partners >>>

Innovation Agenda for Sustainable Healthcare now in English

14 September 2015

The Innovation Agenda for Sustainable Healthcare is now available in English.

In the summarized version of the Innovation Agenda that TEM has recently completed, you can read about the definition of sustainable healthcare, key stakeholders of sustainable healthcare in Sweden, a SWOT-analysis of the field, principle conclusions resulting from the work with the Agenda, results of the work (the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare), as well as the main contributors and methodology of the Agenda.

Download the Innovation Agenda as PDF in English here >>

See the most recent list of NCSH members and partners.

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2015-09-14

Broad Scandinavian support at the first NCSH members meeting

04 September 2015

On September 3rd we had the first member meeting with the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare hosted by our partner Swecare in Stockholm. During the meeting, which was fully booked several days before September 3rd, representatives of Schneider Electrics, BBD, Swecare, TEM, Glamox Luxo, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, Bauer, Ligudity Services, Karolinska University Hospital, Oslo University hospital, Martinsson, Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Innvovaiton Norway, Eco Online, Samsung, Miljöaktuellt, Miljörapporten and Helseplan discussed the future of the NCSH.

Anders Lönnberg, the Swedish government’s national coordinator for Life Sciences, who attended the meeting, gave his view on the new center. He, among other things, shared the view from the Innovation Agenda that intersectional projects like the NCSH are in great demand and can be a part of a Swedish business plan to boost export and increase employement rates. Today sustainability and environment are crucial aspects in all healthcare investments and are about to become an important business and innovation area.

Some of the topics discussed during the meeting were a steering committee, an NCSH conference 2016, local meetings in hospitals, development projects etc. More information and notes will be sent to members.

Due to the huge interest, we will organize a similar meeting in Malmö on October 19th.

Region Halland's three hospitals - Halmstad, Varberg, Falkenberg - join NCSH

01 September 2015

We are proud to announce that Region Halland's three hospitals in the Swedish cities of Halmstad, Varberg and Falkenberg join the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare.

From Region Halland's webbpage:

"Halland is a region on the west coast of southern Sweden that offers beautiful nature comprising beaches, forest and lakes. Halland may be small in terms of size, but it is big in terms of growth. Region Halland is responsible for providing a good healthcare service to everyone who lives or spends time in Halland. We also work actively within a number of other areas that affect how it is to live and work in Halland, such as trade and industry, culture and infrastructure. We want Halland to be the best place to live.

By far the largest part of Region Halland's activities revolves around healthcare. About 92 per cent of the region's budget is allocated to healthcare-related issues, and almost 80 per cent of our approximately 7,500 employees work with activities pertaining to healthcare. We operate, among other things, two emergency care hospitals, 24 local medical centres and 20 public dental clinics."

We welcome our new members to the center and look forward to further cooperation!

See the updated list of the NCSH members here >>

2015-09-01

The Swedish National Innovation Agenda

25 August 2015

For the past year a constellation of different stakeholders have been working with a National Swedish Innovation Agenda on Sustainable Healthcare. Numerous meetings, workshops and interviews have been conducted to sort out what actions need to be implemented so that Sustainable Healthcare can grow and become a bigger part of the Swedish innovation, economy and export.

- Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is one of the results of the agenda.

Presently the report is only available in Swedish, but its shorter version will be translated into English soon.

The work has been funded by Vinnova, Energimyndigheten and Formas.

The National Swedish Innovation Agenda (Swedish) (PDF) >>

2015-08-25

SP is joining Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

21 August 2015

We are proud to announce that SP is joining NCSH. Since the kick-off May 28 NCSH has grown it´s network to 20 members.

From SP:s webbpage: "SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden is a leading international research institute. We work closely with our customers to create value, delivering high-quality input in all parts of the innovation chain, and thus playing an important part in assisting the competitiveness of industry and its evolution towards sustainable development. SP applies its internationally leading competence to the development and evaluation of technologies, material, products, and processes to meet its customers' needs and provide an effective link between research and commercialisation.

SP operates from about 30 sites all over Sweden. Its headquarters and main facilities are in Borås.
The SP Group consists of eight companies including the parent company SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden AB. The Swedish state is via Rise Holding AB the sole owner of the SP Group.
SP contributes to sustainable development by developing new expertise and dependable technical decision criteria for use in the business sector and society."

SP is a very important Swedish player and will strengthen the network considerably.

2015-08-21

First member meeting for NCSH September 3rd

13 August 2015

Join us for the first member meeting for Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare. Since the kick-off in May we are almost 20 members and many more are in the pipe-line to become member. The meeting is primarily for members or organizations that have serious plans of becoming members in the near future.
Since there are several international participants the meeting will be held in English.

Brief agenda

• Presentation of the Swedish innovation agenda on Sustaianble Healthcare and a brief introduction of the concept of sustainable healthcare
• How shall the NCSH be managed: Steering committee? Reference group?
• Strategic targets
• Activity plan for the coming year
• Funding programs currently open for application
• Other funding opportunities

Where: Swecare, Biblioteksgatan 25, Stockholm
When: 3 september 2015, 13.30–16.30
Who: For members and partners of the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
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Questions: Contact Daniel Eriksson at 070 794 42 13 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Download the invitation as PDF: English, Swedish

2015-08-13

Lighting 4 Healthcare - new project this fall

07 July 2015

premiumbroschyr We are currently applying for funding for a pre-study regarding LED-lighting and energy savings in hospital, focusing not only on energy but also health benefits. We have a couple of interested hospitals, a Swedish national agency that wants to fund a big part of the project and a handful of interested companies with innovative solutions.

This is a follow-up from the cross-European project PremiumLight that TEM took part in. During the project PremiumLight the special applications for healthcare came up as a interesting subject for many stakeholders.

If your organisation, hospital, region, company etc. are interested to take part in some way, please contact project manager Johannes Brundin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +46 7008-92 73 05

2015-07-07

Glamox Luxo new member

07 July 2015

We welcome Glamox Luxo as a new member in Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare. The Glamox Luxo Group owns a range of quality lighting brands including Glamox, Aqua Signal, Luxo, Høvik Lys and Norselight. They have among other things highly efficent LED-systems for hosptials and healthcare.

2015-07-07

First international researcher to Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

01 July 2015

amina

Amina Pereno, a PhD researcher from one of Italy’s best universities Politecnico di Torino, will be staying in Sweden working with the NCSH later this year.
Amina's research focuses on the environmental sustainability and sustainable design of healthcare systems, in particular eco-dialysis. Read more about Amina and download her presentation here>>

Amina has her Master degree in Ecodesign at Politecnico di Torino, where she currently is a PhD student in Management, Production and Design. Her personal research focuses on the environmental sustainability and sustainable design of healthcare systems, in particular chronic treatments. Since 2010, Amina has been a part of “Observatory of Eco-Pack”, which deals with industrial sustainable packaging. She is author of the book “The importance of packaging design for the chemistry of food products” (edited by Springer in 2014) and other peer-review publications about packaging, sustainable design and healthcare. Moreover, Amina is an assistant lecturer in the course Environmental Requirements of Industrial Products at Politecnico di Torino.

We welcome Amina to NCSH and look forward to workinig with her!

2015-07-01

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