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Saving Lives,
Saving Money,
Securing the Future
Sustainability, health and the NHS
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Acknowledgements
• This presentation has been prepared by the
NHS Sustainable Development Unit and
adapted by the East Midlands NHS
Sustainable Development lead for
presentation to the East Midlands Evidence
and Innovation event focussing on Food and
Health.
1. What is sustainability?
2. Why is it important?
3. What can I do to make a difference -
at home and at work?
Today we will be exploring…
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“Meeting our needs today without compromising the
ability of others to meet their needs tomorrow…”
What is Sustainability?
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5 Barbier, 1987
Sustainability – Striking the Balance
Did you know?
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If everyone on the planet had the same
wasteful lifestyles and used as much energy
as we do in the UK we would need THREE
EARTHS to provide enough resources. We
are living way beyond our means
Why is sustainability important…?
1) It improves Health
2) It saves Money
3) The NHS can Make a Difference
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Did you know?
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The NHS has to reduce its carbon emissions
by 10% by 2015 to help meet the Climate
Change Act (2008) target of 80% by 2050.
How will you help deliver this?
Health
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Although climate change can cause illness and death directly...
…there are MUCH greater health risks through…
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Health
Health co-benefits: What is good for health is good for the
environment…
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Health
NHS carbon
footprint 1 17%
Building
energy
use 24% Procurement
59%
1 England. NHS Sustainable Development Unit 2010 15
21 million tonnes CO2e
Did you know?
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The Government’s Carbon Reduction
Commitment (CRC) scheme requires many NHS
organisations to participate in an “energy league”.
Good performers will get a bonus while poor
performers will lose money.
Saving carbon will save the Trust money that
can be reinvested in delivering services!
1) 21 million tonnes of CO2e is the same as some medium
sized countries (e.g. Northern Ireland and Portugal)
TRUE
2) The biggest chunk of procurement emissions is the
manufacture of medical devices
FALSE
3) The NHS is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in
Europe
TRUE
4) 1 in 20 journeys on UK roads are health related
TRUE
Can we make a difference?
True or False?
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• NHS East Midlands Board paper embedding Sustainable Development into the NHS
• the Board level sponsor for Sustainable Development work is Sir Neil Mackay – Chief Executive and David Walker – for Public Health
• Helen Ross – the East Midlands NHS Sustainable Development lead
• The East Mdlands NHS Sustainable Development Network
• The East Midlands NHS Carbon Reduction Project – 1 million tonnes of CO2e
– adoption of an East Midlands NHS Food Standard – being developed and trialled in conjunction with the Soil Association and the Platform.
East Midlands
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What can I do?
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Is that face to face meeting really necessary?
Reduce travel!
If teleconferencing replaced
5% of business miles travelled,
the NHS (England) would save
over £13.9 million each year
What can I do?
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Think about everything you use in your job and the amount of
things you throw away: which of them could be used better,
reused or recycled?
Reduce, reuse and recycle!
The NHS spends £20 billion every
year on buying goods and services
What can I do?
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When you left your house this morning did you
leave the taps running and the lights and TV on?
Turn it off!
If every Trust cut their energy bill by
5% the NHS in England would save
around £20 million per year.
What Can I do? • Join the East Midlands NHS Sustainable
Development network
• Support the development and roll out of the
EM NHS Carbon Reduction Project
• Support NHS organisations
– To adopt the East Midlands NHS Sustainable Food
Standard.
– With their NHS Forest projects
Why Sustainable Food?
• Good food helps patients recover from illness.
• Red meat is a major source of saturated fat intake
• the NHS has a responsibility to inform the public about healthy eating and to consider the impact of the food that it buys and serves on its premises.
• UK Food sector emits around 33 mt of CO2 pa
• Global livestock activities contribute to around 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, 4% more than transport1
• The NHS Sustainable Development Unit proposes a shift to use more seasonal food, more local food, and more use of sustainable and nutritionally valuable produce such as sustainably sourced fish.
Contact details
• Helen Ross – helen.ross5@nhs.net
East Midlands NHS Sustainable Development
lead
• http://www.eastmidlands.nhs.uk/partners/sust
ainability/?locale=en
Others have been there before you….
When the winds of change blow, some people
build walls and others build windmills (Chinese proverb)
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