Read the interview with Laurent Setton, Senior Official for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Women's Rights. He talks to us about sustainable development in the health and medico-social sector.
For a more colorful world of healthcare
Giving hope and comfort to all those who suffer and stay in hospital, to their families and carers, by offering them art: this is the mission set by the Foundation for Art in Hospitals, created in 1984 in the United States, which offers works of art to hospitals free of charge. The foundation's raison d'être is to make hospitals around the world beautiful places of healing.
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.