This webinar explains the “reusables first” approach to sustainable procurement, which prioritizes reusable products and devices over single-use disposables whenever clinically safe to do so. It highlights how healthcare procurement can help reduce the sector’s environmental impact by decarbonizing supply chains and adopting more sustainable practices to support planetary health and climate mitigation. The session features healthcare professionals from British Columbia and Ontario who share their experience implementing reusable-first strategies in clinical settings and discuss practical opportunities for broader adoption across the health system.
This video presented sustainable perioperative care practices through the use of reusable anesthesia components and outlined the reprocessing pathway at North York General Hospital. It highlighted ways to improve the sustainability of perioperative care and provided an overview of additional learning resources, including an introduction to sustainable health systems e-learning module and an overview of perioperative sustainability action areas from CASCADES.
This playbook provides background information, an overview of reusable opportunities in healthcare, as well as implementation resources and suggested strategies to adopt reusables at care sites.
The following table provides a general list of groups that need to be involved for the successful planning, design or delivery of food infrastructure for planetary health projects; it is offered as a working draft or a guide for you and your teams to upgrade together.
This playbook aims to support informed decision-making related to foodinfrastructures for planetary health throughout the planning, design, construction and ongoing operation of Canadian healthcare facilities.
This worksheet is part of the Food Infrastructures for Planetary Health Playbook, which aims tosupport informed decision-making related to food infrastructures for planetary health throughout the planning, design, construction, ongoing operation retrofitting (and even decommissioning) of Canadian healthcare facilities. These sequential stages are known as the Facilities Delivery Lifecycle
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Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice
In partnership with the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, we are assembling a Healthcare Waste Management Community of Practice. This network will enhance sustainability within healthcare waste management processes in Canada by exploring the links between waste, clinical delivery of care and environment sustainability Chair: Allen Bridge, Provincial Lead in Environmental Sustainability and Waste Management at Alberta Health Services
