GOSH joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
YewMaker, the executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP), is announcing that Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) has joined as a founding Collaborator.
The SMP is a not-for-profit private-public collaboration executing projects to make the use of medicines more sustainable and less wasteful.
GOSH is a world leading children’s hospital and provides the UK’s widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. GOSH is one of the few UK Hospitals to declare a Climate Emergency and was the first London Hospital to do so. The declaration builds upon the hospital’s existing sustainability programme to establish greater ambitions for climate action and environmental leadership.
In its collaboration with the SMP, GOSH will collaborate with insights, advice and problem-solve to promote and pilot sustainability in the use of medicines.
“Our purpose is to advance care for children and young people with complex health needs so they can fulfil their potential. Sustainability is central to our purpose, as the health of our environment has widely acknowledged impacts on child health.
As an SMP Collaborator, GOSH can contribute vital expertise and leadership, as well as learn alongside others to make provision of medicines more equitable and sustainable. We understand that it is not only medicines that can have a large carbon footprint, but the way we use them, the way we supply them and the way we deliver information about them. Whilst we can make some changes ourselves, it is only via collaboration that we can learn together and drive change.”
“We are delighted to welcome GOSH to the Sustainable Medicines Partnership. Their expertise, global reputation, and commitment to innovation and to sustainability make GOSH ideal SMP collaborators. We look forward to working with them.”
Posted 23/09/22
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Contacts:
YewMaker: comms@yewmaker.com
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children: media@gosh.nhs.uk
About the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
The SMP is a not-for-profit, private-public, multi-stakeholder collaboration. Through executing priority actions, the Sustainable Medicines Partnership aims to stop the avoidable waste of medicines and medicines packaging - reducing healthcare emissions and increasing health equity globally. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com/smp
About YewMaker
YewMaker builds science-based, scalable concepts and solutions that make healthcare more sustainable. YewMaker is the initiator and executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com
About Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals with the broadest range of dedicated, children’s healthcare specialists under one roof in the UK. The hospital’s pioneering research and treatment gives hope to children from across the UK with the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions. Our patients and families are central to everything we do – from the moment they come through the door and for as long as they need us. Learn more at www.gosh.nhs.uk
