Optimization of intervention kits, replacement of single-use outfits, alternatives to drugs that generate the most waste... at the PUI de Versailles, actions in favor of sustainable development are multiplying, with real economies of scale at the end of the day.
Nice University Hospital and its commitment to sustainable printing
Gilles Lombard, head of the reprographics department, explains the actions taken by Nice University Hospital to reduce its environmental impact.
Amiens University Hospital's eco-logistics unit aims for THQSE certification
The logistics department at Amiens Picardie University Hospital is planning to obtain THQSE certification by the end of the year.
Purchasing: a single ordering channel
Contact-Achat et Logistique is an in-house tool. Interview with Jérôme Meunier, Purchasing, Logistics and SD Director at GH Bretagne Sud.
Circular economy: German study analyzes the life cycle of electrophysiology catheters
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have carried out the most comprehensive life-cycle analysis to date, comparing a reprocessed device with its original or "virgin" counterpart.
The Clinique de Montberon gets up to date
The Clinique de Montberon took part in Ademe's publication: integrating the circular economy in healthcare, alongside 17 other establishments in the healthcare and medico-social sectors. They were supported on three circular economy themes: waste reduction and recovery, the fight against food waste, and responsible purchasing.
The beginnings of a responsible purchasing approach at Dijon University Hospital
Marianne Honnart-Thomas, senior health executive at the CHU de Dijon-Bourgogne, talks to us about the responsible purchasing approach being implemented within the establishment, and the teams' desire to include a sustainable development section in the specifications for non-sterile equipment, for which she is technical advisor.
CAHPP: more and more suppliers awarded green index label
For its sixth edition of the Green Index, central purchasing agency CAHPP, which evaluates referenced suppliers on their ethical approach from a social, environmental and economic point of view, recorded good progress.
The main thrusts of Toulouse University Hospital's responsible purchasing policy
Marie-Paule Lafargue Villepigue, in charge of eco-responsible purchasing at Toulouse University Hospital, explains the main thrusts of the responsible purchasing policy implemented by her establishment.
Grønnköpingkið: the world's greenest hospital
The new university hospital in the town of Grønnköpingkið, which will welcome its first patients in 2023, will be the greenest hospital in the world. It will use only ecological and sustainable solutions and equipment, already in place in the Nordic countries, which are very advanced in the field of sustainable development in hospitals.
Phthalate-free hospital" campaign
In 2007, 2010 and again in 2011, C2DS alerted all health and industry stakeholders to the lack of proof of the safety of phthalates, ubiquitous substances in the hospital environment.
Establishments committed to responsible purchasing
The 2015 results of the C2DS IDD tool revealed last year that only 16% of establishments had trained all their staff, and 25% felt they had partially trained their purchasing staff. However, these results are up on 2014, and the initiatives and good practices are growing all the time: buying locally, favoring short circuits, establishing specific criteria in calls for tender and even in the general policy of establishments. Read more.
Food celebrated the world over
Every year since 1979, on October 16, food has been celebrated around the world, under the impetus of the United Nations. Forced by obligations and motivated by national frameworks, but also driven by their own team dynamics, many healthcare and medico-social establishments are multiplying initiatives to avoid food waste, improve the quality of prepared dishes and recycle bio-waste.
A successful approach to catering
"Our sustainable development approach has enabled us to think differently, with an eye to the long term," explains Catherine Burstert, deputy director of the Résidence de l'Argentière (38). Major changes have been implemented, particularly in the catering sector. The possibility of a double choice of vegetables and starches has considerably reduced food waste, with each resident in control of the contents of his or her plate.
Forward to responsible purchasing
By awarding a bed linen contract to Tissus Gisèle, a French manufacturer based in the Vosges, UniHA and the St Etienne University Hospital are focusing on quality, social and environmental responsibility when purchasing hospital linen.
CAHPP testimonial, 1st C2DS Partners' Club evening
CAHPP, a central purchasing and referencing body, has set up a green index enabling it to choose suppliers who take social and environmental impacts into account, and who offer products that consume less energy and natural resources. Thomas Deslypper-Hamon, CAHPP project manager, explains the approach.
Centimeo, the job-creating, community-minded distributor
Centimeo is a single-serve dispenser of eco-responsible snacks made in France and payable with red coins (cents): biodegradable chewing gum made in Angers, organic cookies made in Normandy, fair-trade chocolate, etc. The operation is entirely free of charge for establishments. The dispenser mounts like a picture on the wall, and requires no power supply.
Theme day: responsible purchasing commitments
Catherine Taillefer, hospital pharmacist at Hôpitaux des Portes de Camargue, presents the facility's appropriation of the Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) index for drug molecules for aquatic environments launched in 2013. Find the link to the video in this article.
Campaign "Which baby cosmetics for the maternity ward?"
In 2008, the C2DS studied the contents of baby gift sets offered to expectant mothers, and discovered a veritable toxic cocktail of substances, some of them classified as CMR, in the samples of cosmetics, baby bottles and other gifts given by brands to mothers for their babies.
London hospitals pool their warehouses
In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is one of England's largest employers and a major purchaser of goods and services, with a correspondingly huge carbon footprint of 18 million tonnes of CO2 per year. It has set itself an ambitious target: to reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2020, by 80% by 2050 and, in the shorter term, by 10% from 2007 levels by 2015.