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?

WHEN: 8 December 2015
WHERE: Swecare, Biblioteksgatan 25, Stockholm
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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.

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

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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

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

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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.

Read more about Paxxo >>>

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.

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.

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 >>>

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.

Contact us here if you want to learn more about sustainable healthcare and the NCSH!

2015-09-14

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.

More reading:

• 1 day training in Sustainable Healthcare (Swedish) in Malmö October 20, free for members. >>
• Swecare writes about the meeting >>
• The Swedish national innovation agenda >>
• A pdf explaining NCSH >>

2015-09-04

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

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) >>

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