Sustainable Perioperative Care Scorecard Dashboard

This dashboard showcases the great work sites are doing across Canada to improve the sustainability and environmental impact of perioperative care.

Sustainable Perioperative Care Scorecard

The Scorecard is an assessment tool designed to help perioperative care teams to understand and visualize their progress towards environmental sustainability. It is currently being piloted at sites across Canada.

Share the areas of focus at your site and feedback on the scorecard by completing this survey.

Join the community of practice

Join the community of practice

Teams across Canada using the Sustainable Perioperative Care scorecard are invited to join a community of practice hosted the third Friday of each month by CASCADES and ONSQIN. At this monthly national check in, participants are invited to share their experiences and use this opportunity to seek guidance on how to maximize the impact of their sustainability efforts. Please email Katy Devitt for more information.

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Other topics

Care pathways

Key actions can minimize the environmental harms of medications throughout their lifecycle and address increased medication-related risks due to climate change.

Many opportunities exist to address the resource intensity of perioperative care while ensuring and promoting high quality care.

Comprehensive person-centered primary and community care can support health and wellbeing and reduce the need for more resource intensive services.

Practitioners across specialties can take meaningful steps to reduce the environmental impacts of their practice and safeguard patient and population health.

Health services can promote health, including by delivering healthy food, effective chronic disease management, and climate-adapted clinical care.

System enablers

Sustainability is intrinsically linked with both quality care and patient safety and can be embedded within these efforts.

Leadership and good governance are needed to develop and deliver effective climate and sustainability strategy.

The shift to climate resilient and sustainable health systems requires accurate assessment of healthcare’s environmental impacts.

Health systems can leverage their purchasing power to influence vendors and shape markets for sustainable and resilient health sector products and services.

Healthy food, digital innovation and effective waste management are among the key enablers of low-carbon, sustainable and climate-resilient health systems.