Welcome to our group!

Our focus is to help IHSCM members to feel they can tell us about their carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives and help implement these initiatives. Our group also aim to help organisations reach Net Zero Emissions, welcoming new members to the group and networking opportunities.

Elaine Mead (Executive Director of Improvement, Care and Compassion, IC&C) Chair of Greener Care SIG

Greener Care

Resource Portal

The Greener Care SIG highlights environmental sustainability and carbon reduction best practice. It has a large and lively membership with regular events and meetings.

If you would like to get in touch with your carbon reduction initiatives, so that we can help you implement them, please get in touch.

Roundtable Discussions

Explore practical insights into transformative sustainability in health and social care.

Shared Resources

Digital Case Studies from Devonshire Care Homes Collaborative on Digitisation in Residential Care Homes and Environmental Sustainability.

These case studies evidence time savings, improved shift coverage, and greater accuracy, alongside modest carbon reductions from switching to packaging and reducing waste.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare resources:

Join the Greener NHS Community:

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) offers a wide range of information, education and networking opportunities for sustainable healthcare and improvement, below is a link to the CSH website which explains what we do and resources available:

Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) | Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Below is a link to the SusQI website which offers a range of resources for those undertaking a sustainable QI project and to support those who teach QI and want to embed sustainability principles into your teaching.

susqi.org

There are a range of open resources on the site, including a step-by-step guide to running a sustainability focused QI project

Step-by-step guide

Below is a link to information about our SusQI academy which provides bespoke support to individuals or organisations to embed sustainability into their QI education, training and practice by training key staff to become SusQI leads. It is available to those working within health professions education and/or in quality improvement, service transformation and health service delivery.

SusQI Academy

And a link to the CSH networks, where there are a range of professional and speciality specific networks and a searchable resource library

The Greener NHS Community is for anyone in the NHS who is passionate and enthusiastic about contributing to a net zero NHS and wants to do more.

Greener NHS Community members will spread the word about a Greener NHS, build anticipation about big events and moments, help engage with other people locally and share their views and insights to inform national and regional plans.

Being a Greener NHS Community member shows that you support the pioneering work of the NHS to become the world’s first net zero health system.

Find out more

Video Resources & Past SIG Events

Addressing Waste in Europe

Medicines waste in care homes: social & environmental impact

Engaging care homes in the sustainability agenda

Green Spaces and Workforce Wellbeing

IHSCM Greener Care Special Interest Group Meeting, Dec 2023

‘Go Green’

Greening Confidential Waste

Improving Patient Outcomes using Sustainable & Patient-Focused Alternatives

Grace Cares: Breaking the Mould for Joined-up Sustainable Care

Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI): What, Why and How?

IHSCM Greener Care Conference 2023 | Elaine Mead – Keynote

Healthcare Without Harm’s Global Green and Healthy Hospital Network Project.

The UK’s award winning, greenest health centre built to meet Passivhaus standards

Greening Royal Wolverhamption NHS Trust Services: Success and Challenges

Sunscreens and protection without causing harm to sealife

Williams Medical Green Plan – the journey so far & thanks and close

IHSCM Greener Care Conference | Welcome & ICS for Devon Green Plan – Devon’s Journey

IHSCM Greener Care Conference | Greener care in the social care sector

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Green Plan – the journey so far

IHSCM Greener Care Conference | How to have conversations about sustainability & training

The benefits of bringing the outside in for health

Greening Orthotics Services at Royal Wolverhamption NHS Trust

Greening Transport for the NHS

Decarbonising the NHS Estate