GS1 Healthcare joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
YewMaker, the executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP), is announcing that GS1 Healthcare 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.
GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit, global organisation that develops and maintains the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. GS1 standards improve the efficiency, safety and visibility of supply chains across multiple sectors.
GS1 Healthcare is a neutral and open community bringing together all related healthcare stakeholders to lead the successful development and implementation of global GS1 standards, enhancing patient safety and operational and supply chain efficiencies.
In its collaboration with the SMP, GS1 Healthcare will share expertise on using global standards to create visibility of every step of a medicines lifecycle, from manufacture to the patient and beyond. This is crucial for many of the SMP’s objectives, including minimising wastage and improving accessibility.
“The members of GS1 Healthcare are dedicated to enhancing patient safety, operational and supply chain efficiencies. We are proud and excited to support the Sustainable Medicines Partnership and its mission in making the supply chain sustainable while ensuring that everyone around the world, including future generations, have access to safe medicines.”
“GS1 standards and barcodes are foundational to the medicines supply chain and offer many opportunities for reducing waste and improving sustainability, safety, and accessibility of medicines. We are thrilled to be working with GS1 Healthcare to deliver this shared vision.”
Posted 31/08/22
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Contacts:
YewMaker: comms@yewmaker.com
GS1: healthcare@gs1.org
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 GS1
GS1 Healthcare is a neutral and open community bringing together all related healthcare stakeholders to lead the successful development and implementation of global GS1 standards enhancing patient safety, operational and supply chain efficiencies. Learn more at www.gs1.org/healthcare
