What are CSH projects?
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is at the forefront of revolutionising the healthcare sector to be more sustainable. We are committed to developing and implementing innovative solutions that reduce the sectors environmental footprint whilst maintaining the highest standards of patient care. To achieve these ambitious goals, CSH partners with world renowned institutions and royal colleges on groundbreaking projects that push the boundaries of sustainable healthcare research and practice.
The NHS Forest
NHS Forest is our Green Space for Health team’s flagship programme, and is dedicated to transforming the green spaces of healthcare sites for health, wellbeing and biodiversity.
NHS Forest Trees
As part of our Green Team’s flagship NHS Forest project, NHS Forest Trees offer fully funded tree bundles for NHS sites in England.
Each bundle has been designed to provide a variety of benefits, such as attracting wildlife or providing spring colour, and contains trees of different species and sizes. We also offer orchard bundles.
Nature Recovery Rangers
CSH’s Nature Recovery Rangers work with NHS partners at healthcare sites to improve the quality of green spaces, and to help integrate nature into patient care, staff wellbeing and community engagement. Their aim is to maximise the role that these green spaces play in the prevention of health issues, supporting positive patient outcomes, recovery, and the creation of a healthier environment.
Nursing insights project
The Nursing and Midwifery Insights Survey is a joint project between CSH and the Queen’s Nursing Institute, and aims to identify carbon reducing actions and behaviours for clinical nurses and midwives.
Maternity care project
CSH is partnering with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition (SHC), and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) to deliver the project “Taking collective action to deliver low carbon, equitable maternity care”.
Green Maternity Challenge 2024
In the Green Maternity Challenge, six clinical teams in the UK will be selected to receive training and mentoring from CSH to develop, plan, run, and measure the impact of a sustainable quality improvement (SusQI) project. Projects will focus on identified target areas for reducing environmental harm and health inequalities in maternity services.
KitNewCare – transforming kidney care across Europe
KitNewCare, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to help health and care systems better embrace environmental sustainability and climate-neutrality, using kidney care as a demonstrator.
Mapping the living kidney donor pathway project
This short project will map and investigate the carbon impacts of the donor pathway, and variations within it. Through understanding the pathway we will highlight what variations mean for the experience of donors, and the carbon cost. With input from the wider transplant community we will investigate what policies and norms drive these variations and investigate what positive changes could be made.
Medicine waste in care homes project
This project, funded through Q Exchange by the Health Foundation and NHS England, will use the SusQI approach to explore the environmental and social impacts of medicines waste in care homes. We aim to generate innovative solutions in line with CQC environmental sustainability expectations that inspire action across the healthcare system.
Green Nursing Challenge 2025
The Green Nursing Challenge is a CSH led project to support nurses to lead on sustainable healthcare initiatives and implement improvements to patient care with additional benefits of reducing costs and carbon emissions.
Learn about our past projects
CSH has undertaken a wide range of projects in the past that continue to have a positive impact on the sustainable healthcare sectore today. Read more about our past projects and the case studies that have arisen from them here.
