This year, Hywel Dda University Health Board selected six teams to participate in our Green Team Competition. Each team was supported by CSH to develop, run, and measure projects that add sustainable value to their service by considering the "triple bottom line". We are pleased to share that these projects have projected annual savings of £26,398.562 and 2,340,950 kgCO2e, which is the carbon equivalent of what 92,638 mature trees would absorb in a year, or 6,742,367.5 miles driven in an average car.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) is proud to announce the remarkable outcomes of the Green Team Competition held in partnership with Swansea Bay University Health Board. The combined projects produced estimated annual savings of £33,795 and 4,574,021 kgCO2e, or the carbon footprint equivalent of 13,174,024 miles driven in an average car, or 16,676 return trips between Swansea Bay and Edinburgh.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) is delighted to announce the outstanding results of the Green Team Competition it recently ran with the Christie NHS Foundation Trust. The competition resulted in projected annual savings of £554,525 and 99,403 kgCO2e for the Trust, which is the carbon equivalent of 286,299 miles driven in an average car, or 734 return trips between the Christie and Kings Cross, London.
In the depth of mid-winter, may you find beauty in the world around you. As we prepare for 2023, it is time to reflect on the past year and to look forward to new opportunities.
This month saw the conclusion of CSH's 12-month group scholar programme, SFERIC, which was administered in collaboration with NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Cardiff and Vale UHB, the Green Health Wales Network and the Dragon's Heart Institute. We bid farewell to a variety of scholars with backgrounds in ENT surgery, dermatology, paediatrics and more, with a variety of interests, including inhalers and laboratory tests. The programme is expected to reduce carbon emissions by 40,920 kg each year (or more than 331 round trips from Bangor to Cardiff), and it will also save money—an estimated £28,000 per year. Congratulations to all!
This year's Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change, a collaboration of over 120 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe, warns that "the health of people around the world is at the mercy of a persistent fossil fuel addiction".