Newcastle Hospitals join the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
YewMaker, the executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP), is announcing that Newcastle Hospitals 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.
Newcastle Hospitals is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation Trusts in the country, with around 17,000 staff and an annual income of £1billion the trust has almost 1.8 million patient contacts each year.
Newcastle Hospitals has a global reputation for sustainable healthcare leadership and became the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a Climate Emergency – committing to fast-tracking decarbonisation efforts in recognition that the climate crisis is a health crisis.
In its collaboration with the SMP, Newcastle Hospitals will provide sustainable healthcare provider expertise to help the SMP inform and develop innovative solutions to the medicines sustainability challenge.
“We’re excited to formally announce our collaboration with SMP, having been involved in shaping the concept from the beginning. Medicines account for more than a fifth of NHS carbon emissions and can only be reduced through a collaborative approach to innovation between NHS and industry.”
“Newcastle Hospitals are pioneers in making sustainable healthcare a reality and were key to the creation and implementation of the SMP vision. We are delighted to formally welcome them as an SMP collaborator and to working with them to pilot innovative strategies to make the development, deployment, and disposal of medicines more sustainable.”
Posted 14/06/22
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Contacts:
YewMaker: comms@yewmaker.com
Newcastle Hospitals: Michelle Davies – Senior Communications Officer michelle.davies42@nhs.net or 0191 2137301
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 Newcastle Hospitals
Newcastle Hospitals provides care to patients and their families, across communities in the North East of England and beyond, with over 1.8 million patient contacts every year. We are one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK, offering a wide range of specialist services, in our community and across our hospital sites, which include the Freeman Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Great North Children’s Hospital, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle Dental Hospital and Newcastle Fertility Centre.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. Learn more at https://www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk/
About Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (SHINE)
Newcastle Hospitals has a long-standing reputation for delivering outstanding healthcare services with sustainability as a priority. The Trust’s vision for sustainability is to be a global leader in sustainable healthcare delivery through collaboration and innovation, helping our patients and communities to thrive within the means of the planet. Learn more here: https://www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk/about/ambitions/climate-emergency/
