Environmental Impacts of Seasonal Influenza: A Case Study

Vaccination programmes are used to prevent the transmission of flu, and to reduce the cases and severity of flu in the population, which in turn reduces the burden on healthcare services. Sustainable Healthcare Coalition member, AstraZeneca conducted a care pathway...

SMP Founding Collaborators Announced

The Sustainable Medicines Partnership  (SMP), an important collaborative initiative led by YewMaker announced the 42 founding collaborators today, 4th October 2022. The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition has joined the other founder collaborators, including pharma,...

In-Centre Haemodialysis at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital

In June 2019, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NUTH) became the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a Climate Emergency,  recognising that a climate emergency is also a health emergency, and committed to becoming a net-zero carbon...

Sustainable Healthcare Coalition welcomes Bupa to join its collaboration for better human and planetary health

We are excited that leading international healthcare company, Bupa has joined the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition (SHC). Health insurance is at the core of Bupa’s business in addition to which it provides healthcare provision through its hospitals, health clinics,...

The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership

The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition is proud to announce that it has joined the Sustainable Medicines Partnership, an important new initiative, led by YewMaker. In its collaboration with the SMP, a not-for-profit private-public collaboration, the Sustainable...

New resource to help GP practices reduce their carbon footprint

The climate crisis is a health crisis and we all have a role to play in tackling the emergency, including primary care. GP surgeries are expected to start measuring and reducing emissions in line with the NHS’s net zero ambition, but until now there has been little...