NW Greener NHS joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
YewMaker, the executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP), is announcing that NW Greener NHS 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.
NW Greener NHS is part of the NHS England North West regional team and is one of seven regional teams supporting with the delivery of the Greener NHS Programme. A programme responsible for driving forward the system’s world-leading commitment to deliver a net zero health service by 2040.
In its collaboration with the SMP, NW Greener NHS will support Projects to measure the carbon footprint of medicines and to identify opportunities for optimising medicines use to reduce waste of usable medicines.
“Medicines account for 25% of the carbon equivalent emissions of the NHS. This is both at point of use with medicines such as, inhalers and anaesthetic gases, and within the manufacturing processes. It was announced at the NHS Confed on 16th June that every Trust in England has a Green Plan and within the North West we have 32 Trusts. We look forward to working in collaboration with SMP and feel there is real opportunity to make change if we all work together.”
“We are delighted NW Greener NHS has joined the SMP. The opportunity to work together with them and the 32 Trusts they are supporting is very exciting, and will help us provide the practical, scalable solutions needed to deliver a Net Zero NHS and to make medicines more sustainable.”
Posted 05/07/22
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Contacts:
YewMaker: comms@yewmaker.com
NW Greener NHS: clare.macintosh@mft.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 NW Greener NHS
NW Greener NHS is part of the NHS England North West regional team and is one of seven regional teams supporting with the delivery of the Greener NHS Programme. A programme responsible for driving forward the system’s world-leading commitment to deliver a net zero health service by 2040. The regional teams coordinate, direct and support the ICS systems to achieve this ambitious level of transformation. Learn more at www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/
