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Ready to operate in 2030, the world's greenest hospital Grønnköpingkið is already 20 % to the finish line. Do not miss your chance to get on board! 

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. NCSH members have a 25 % discount on the price to join Grønnköpingkið.

Once finished, the digital hospital will contain about 100 of the greenest healthcare solutions currently available and used at real-life Nordic hospitals and healthcare facilities. Do as:

- Mölnlycke Health Care
- Evercare Medical
- Paxxo
- Silentia
- Stryker
- FrostPharma – WoodSafe®
- Medclair
- Hållbar Teknik
- Secapp
- Avidicare
- Saint-Gobain Ecophon
- Enrad
- Addax Biosciences
- LINK Arkitektur
- Pharmafilter
- Medicvent
- E.ON ectogrid™
- HealthTextiles
- InventiAir
- FLOOW2

… and become part of making Grønnköpingkið the most sustainable out there!

To the world's greenest hospital

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Registrations have begun trickling in for May 15th and the webinar World's Greenest Hospital LIVE. Get your solution on the platform and secure a spot to showcase its sustainability impact at the webinar, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The NCSH network is joined by the health care department of the Vinnytsia City Council – a key player in ensuring healthcare provision and safety in Vinnytsia's community in Ukraine.

They introduce themselves and their important work below:

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Health care department of the Vinnytsia City Council is a local self-government body in the field of health care.

Mission: The Department of Health Care organises medical services for the population of the territorial community and contributes to ensuring the needs of the population in the field of health care. Vinnytsia's urban community consists of 9 settlements: the city of Vinnytsia and 8 surrounding settlements. The territory of the community is 255.1 km² and the population consists of more than 400k people.

The department develops and implements a community development strategy in the field of health care, ensures the implementation of state and local socio-economic, medical-sanitary, and health-preventive programs. Furthermore, the role of the department is to manage the network of medical institutions. The health care network of our community is represented by 12 city health care institutions: 5 hospitals, 5 primary care centers, 2 consultative medical centers.

There are also 7 regional and more than 100 private health care facilities of various capacities in the territory of Vinnytsia. The purpose of the local self-government and communal health care system is to provide needs of the community population in medical services.

Our strategic tasks in the conditions of military aggression are:
- provision of medical services
- continuous medical care
- patient safety
- increasing transparency
- anti-corruption policy
- community involvement
- transformation and sustainable development
"

Visit our new member's website to learn more:

• To Vinnytsia City Council

The NCSH network is open to actors worldwide in the area of sustainable healthcare. 

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We have now wrapped up two days of kick-off in Malmö for the project KitNewCare, focusing on kidney care to help healthcare better embrace environmental sustainability and climate-neutrality. Thank you to all partners for a great start!

Read about the project

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of HADEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Co-funded by UK Research and Innovation. 

Since 1 December 2023, NCSH is one of 7 partners in the EU project DesHealth. The project aims to:

- Allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their education activities.
- Develop and reinforce the organisations' networks of partners, increasing their capacity to operate jointly at the transnational level.
- Answer the educational gap on Sustainable Healthcare in higher and professional education building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors.
- Promote the sustainable transition of European health systems by training new and future practitioners addressing common needs and priorities.
- Build co-disciplinary and cross-sectoral relationships between different stakeholders in the health system, in particular between academia, industry and health facilities, enabling sustainability transformations and changes.

Feel free to reach out to us (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for more details, and subscribe to NCSH's newsletter to not miss any project updates. 

 

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the National Agency Erasmus+ INDIRE. Neither the European Union nor INDIRE can be held responsible for them.

Among 8 organisations from 7 EU countries, NCSH is participating in the Interreg Europe project DAPHNE. Today marks the starting point for the project, carried out by an online kick-off with our interregional partners.

Recognising healthcare as a hugely energy-intensive sector, DAPHNE sets out to improve 6 national/regional/local authorities' capacity to design and implement better healthcare policies – focused specifically on decarbonisation.

To do this, the project will both chart a course to decarbonisation as well as identify breakthrough technologies and innovative tools that could be scaled-up to accelerate the healthcare sector's energy transition.

We at NCSH function as an overall European advisory organisation and will support the participating national/regional/local authorities with matters related to technical solutions, policy implementation and best practices.

The project closes in 2028.

DAPHNE is an Interreg Europe project, co-funded by the European Union.

Next week, project partners in the Horizon Europe project KitNewCare are meeting up in Malmö.

The kick-off on March 4th and 5th welcomes around 50 researchers and leaders to southern Sweden.

Rapidus has shared the news (in Swedish)

KitNewCare will run for four years and bring together 19 different European partners under the umbrella of 6 million euros. Based on the resource-intensive care of kidney diseases, the lessons learned and the project results are intended to be extended to wider healthcare practices. 

Read the project press release >>

The 'KitNewCare' project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of HADEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

We are happy to welcome one more Nordic addition to the NCSH network: DMedical from Norway!

"Founded in 2005, DMedical is a Norwegian company working in various healthcare areas like hygiene, surgery, waste management, and rehabilitation. We work closely with top manufacturers in Europe, the USA, and Asia to offer our customers affordable, high-quality products.

At DMedical, we carefully choose products that go beyond industry standards, ensuring our customers get top-notch quality without harmful materials and with excellent production standards.

To emphasize our commitment to ethical and sustainable practices, we collaborate with organizations like Ethical Trading Norway, Green Dot Norway, Eco-Lighthouse, and the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare. These partnerships highlight our dedication to maintaining high ethical and environmental standards in our operations.

DMedical is devoted to providing outstanding healthcare solutions, guided by a commitment to excellence, integrity, and responsibility to our clients and the wider community."

Visit our new member's website to get in contact and learn more:

• To DMedical

The NCSH network is open to actors worldwide in the area of sustainable healthcare. 

Become a member

Our International Projects Coordinator, Diego Angelino, visited Stockholm last week to take part in The Future of Ukraine Summit 2024.

Next to Region Stockholm and KI Innovations, Diego took a seat in the panel discussion on innovations in healthcare, introducing the first day of the summit. The purpose of the summit is to bring together Ukrainian startups with Nordic innovators, investors and startups in order to benefit from the competence, skills, innovations and development in both ecosystems. 

We are grateful for the invitation and look forward to the next steps on this collaborative journey!

Images: Utveckling och innovation Region Stockholm

These first weeks of February 2024, we at NCSH are presenting the preliminary results and recommendations from our hospital audits on-site in November 2023, to the administrations of the Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh states in India. The purpose is to define the next steps needed to develop 'Green Hospitals' in the regions, in collaboration with our partner Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child (MAMTA HIMC).

Meeting with the administration of Uttar Pradesh, 6 February 2024.

MAMTA about the on-site audits and meetings: “The Govt. of HP Health Department is charting a sustainable path with the launch of 'Green Hospital', an innovative initiative in collaboration with MAMTA & Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare. Honoured to be part of the discussion, as we convene under the leadership of the Secretary of Health to shape the future course of action for a healthier and greener tomorrow.”

The visit to India – as well as its aftermath – is further part of the NCSH model to establish a baseline for more sustainable hospitals and healthcare in low- and middle-income countries, using the Nordics as a reference point.

Alongside November's audits at the health facilities in Himachal Pradesh and Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), we were also invited to rewarding meetings with the Health Department officials in Shimla and the officials at the Health Department in Lucknow – discussing energy and climate-smart solutions for their vast number of hospitals and the many new ones being built soon. The interest in Nordic experience in the area is evident, made even clearer by the fact that NCSH's and MAMTA's visit were featured in a national Indian newspaper.

Johannes Brundin, who together with Daniel Eriksson represented our NCSH team in India, summed up the trip to India in November: “After more than a week in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, we have gathered a lot of experience and impressions. Climate change being a challenge in both India and the Nordics, we look forward to collaborating with Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child and hospitals in both states on sustainable healthcare.”

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NCSH is happy to announce that we are a partner in the Horizon Europe project 'KitNewCare: Pioneering Transformation in Kidney Healthcare Sustainability Across Europe'

A new EU-funded project – KitNewCare – aims to help health and care systems better embrace environmental sustainability and climate-neutrality, with a focus on kidney care. The project runs from January 2024 to December 2027.

At the heart of this initiative is a pressing issue: healthcare systems are significant contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for approximately 5–11 % of the total at global level. Within this context, kidney care emerges as an ideal candidate for systemic change due to its substantial disease burden, resource footprint and well-defined care pathways and ecosystem.

KitNewCare tackles the challenge head-on, identifying and addressing the major health, environmental, financial, and social hotspots in healthcare. The project goes beyond the traditional focus on building energy use – where carbon reduction has been historically concentrated – targeting the broader aspects of products, services and pathways that form a significant part of the carbon footprint. The project employs a systematic approach to pilot and benchmark interventions, holistically assessing their effectiveness, and aligning with major EU initiatives which call for the development, implementation, and upscaling of sustainable solutions throughout the healthcare landscape.

"The KitNewCare project represents a pivotal step towards aligning kidney care with sustainable healthcare goals, both at national level and in line with the EU Green Deal's objectives," stated Brett Duane, Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator at Trinity College Dublin. "Our vision is to revolutionise healthcare practices by introducing sustainable technologies and methodologies that minimise environmental impact without compromising patient care. By embedding social responsibility and environmental consciousness into our work, we aim not only to improve patient outcomes but also pave the way for a more sustainable healthcare sector. We believe that KitNewCare, with the expertise of our European partners, will serve as a beacon of sustainability, inspiring others to adopt sustainable practices and foster a greener healthcare future."

A key element of KitNewCare's approach is the involvement of a range of stakeholders – including patients, healthcare professionals, NGOs, industry partners, and policymakers. Integral to this approach is the development of training and capacity-building materials, as well as policy briefs and recommendations. The former aims at providing training in sustainable skills to different health and care professionals across the EU. The latter will provide guidelines to support ongoing and future policy strategies and agendas to decarbonise the EU healthcare system.

Furthermore, the establishment of a Sustainability Network will ensure the implementation and upscaling of the project’s innovative approaches beyond its duration. The project commits to establishing evidence-based governance mechanisms, supported by life cycle assessments (LCAs), providing healthcare professionals tools for benchmarking and measuring sustainability improvements.

Ultimately, KitNewCare aspires to set new standards in kidney care – delivering high-quality, cost-effective, accessible, and sustainable solutions, including technical innovations. The project's end vision extends beyond kidney care, aiming to influence other medical fields and contribute to a more sustainable future for the entire healthcare system.

Contacts

Project coordinator:
Brett Duane, Trinity College Dublin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Lead Project Manager:
Anita Griffin, Trinity College Dublin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Communication Manager:
Cesar G. Crisosto, ICONS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of HADEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Co-funded by UK Research and Innovation. 

For more details about NCSH's participation, contact our International Projects Coordinator: Diego Angelino (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).