Today, we have launched a new call for innovations to both reduce carbon emissions and drive improvements in care for patients, in partnership with SBRI Healthcare. Air pollution in London led to more than 1,700 hospital admissions for asthma and serious lung conditions between 2017-2019. More than 13 million deaths around the world each year are […]
NHS cancer patients will be the first in the world to benefit from chemotherapy delivered by drone as part of a new trial, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard announced today. The drones, set to make their first flight in the coming weeks, will mean that the lifesaving treatment can be picked up and dropped to […]
For the very first time, every NHS Trust in England now has a green plan in place. That’s 212 NHS Trusts, covering more than 1,000 hospitals and healthcare facilities. Together, these board-approved plans will save more than 1 million tonnes of carbon over the next three years. That’s the same as taking 520,000 cars off […]
I was born 10 weeks premature and owe my life to the amazing midwives, nurses, doctors, and other NHS staff working in neonatal intensive care many years ago. I’ve always wanted to be able to give back and it is an absolute privilege to be a nurse. I’ve worked in acute settings, most recently in […]
The story of the NHS could rival some of the best novels ever written. It is full of firsts: the world’s first universal healthcare system; the first to initiate a clinically approved COVID-19 vaccination programme; the first to deliver a combined lung and heart transplant. It has faced its share of adversity; not least, the […]
A circular economy for surgical textiles. Reducing travel emissions through smarter, faster, greener care. Technology that reduces emissions from pain relief 300 times more environmentally harmful than carbon dioxide. These are just some of the award-winning innovations that the NHS will invest in through a new £1 million Net Zero SBRI Healthcare competition. Launched last […]
SBRI Healthcare has awarded a total of £1 million to ten pioneering MedTech and Digital innovations to support the delivery of a Net Zero NHS. The new projects are funded through a nationwide call by SBRI Healthcare, in partnership with the Greener NHS Programme, and which attracted 46 applications from a range of organisations, including […]
As negotiators gather for the United Nations global climate change summit, COP26, an international group of leaders from some of the NHS’s largest suppliers have come together to pledge their support for a greener NHS, in recognition of the unequivocal threat to health presented by climate change. Left unabated, climate change will disrupt care, with […]
The NHS has today unveiled at COP26 – the United Nations global summit held in Glasgow – the world’s first zero emission ambulance capable of travelling up to 300 miles before re-charging. This marks a major milestone in the ongoing drive to build a greener NHS and save lives by tackling climate change at source. […]
The climate crisis is a health crisis. So agreed the NHS Assembly at our pre COP26 meeting where Dr Nick Watts, who has been appointed to lead the NHS’s charge on net zero, laid out how the health problems caused by climate change are very real and very immediate. And the facts around the NHS’s […]