1. Sustainability and healthcare practice
Heather Baid
Sustainability and healthcare practice

2. Climate Change
Public Health

4. Environmental Financial Social Sustainability
Healthcare practice
Environmental Financial Social Sustainability

5. Sustainable health and care system
What is it?

6. http://www. sduhealth. org. uk/policy-strategy/engagement-resources

7. Sustainability ~ why do it?
Moral
Realisation of limits
Green conscience
Legislation
Financial
Manageable shortage
Return on investment
Innovation
Survival
Scarcity of resources
Crisis management
Shortage

8. NHS contributes 25% of all public sector emissions

9. NHS carbon footprint 17% Building energy use 24% Procurement 59%
travel
17%
Building energy use 24%
Procurement
59%
Carbon footprint of NHS: 25% of all public sector carbon emissions; 4% of total carbon emissions in England
Slide 15: The NHS Carbon footprint
Key Points:
Ask the audience to guess what they think the NHS carbon footprint is: The answer is 21million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (based on 2007 data).
The average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of 9 tonnes per year. In China the average is 3 tonnes per year and in India only 1 tonne per year. The average American has a footprint of 20 tonnes per year (based on 2005 data). As we saw on slide 6 earlier we are using an unfair amount of the world’s resources.
The NHS footprint is made up of:
17% travel (e.g. patient, staff and visitor travel)
24% building energy use (e.g. heating, cooling, lighting)
59% procurement (buying of goods and services e.g. drugs, food, furniture, hospital supplies, medical equipment etc.)
Tips for the Facilitator:
You might like to ask if anyone knows what their own carbon footprint is, and then explain that you can also measure the carbon footprints of organisations or businesses.
This slide has custom animation so you may want to practice it - You could announce each of the areas (travel comes up on the first click, energy use on the second and procurement on the third) before bringing it up on the screen and ask the audience to guess what percentage each area makes up. They should be able to work the last one out!
Note: CO2e means ‘Carbon dioxide equivalent’ - As we mentioned earlier, there are six main greenhouse gases which cause climate change. Each gas has a different global warming potential. For simplicity, the mass of each gas emitted is commonly translated into a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) amount so that the total impact from all sources can be added up to give one figure.
Source: NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy Update, NHS Sustainable Development Unit, 2010
NHS Sustainable Development Unit 2010

10. https://youtu.be/OS9eA-YG1fM

11. Sustainable Development Strategy for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care System 2014-2020

13. What is our role in sustainability?
Brain: Board
What is our role in sustainability?
Eyes: Management
Mouth: Procurement
Lymphatic system: HR
Lungs: Finance
Heart & Vessels: Frontline Staff
Bones: Estates
Liver: Estates
Jerome Braddley Accounting for carbon cost and care. NHS Sustainable Development Conference. London.
Pancreas: Finance
Digestive: Procurement
Urinary: WasteWater
Solid Waste

21. http://www. kingsfund. org

24. Thank you!!!
Heather Baid
@heatherbaid