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The goals were to achieve an overall cleanliness score of above 90% during the National Core Standards Assessment, reduce cleaning chemical-related injuries on duty, and to phase-out cleaning products that appear on the Health Without Harm's Chemicals of Concern to Health and the Environment list.

Sustainable Health in Procurement Project (SHiPP) case study: E.S.E. Hospital San Rafael de Pacho, Cundinamarca, Colombia

In 2020, due to the need to reinforce cleaning and disinfection actions to minimize SARS-CoV-2 transmission, with the help of the Infections Committee, the COVID Interdisciplinary Group, and the Supplies Management and Environmental Management areas, Club Noel Children's Clinical Foundation started a thorough exploration of the active components of the supplies needed to clean and disinfect the hospital, complying with all protocols of the Colombian National Health Institute.

The Communal Department of Health is an outsourced service dedicated to managing the public health centers of Talca’s municipality. In 2011, the health system embarked on a plan to improve its environmental performance in several areas, such as waste management and mercury-containing medical devices, among others.

Aarhus University Hospital offers an example of circular procurement applied to the healthcare sector and demonstrates that it is not necessarily more expensive to set recycling and environmental criteria in tenders.

The Catalan Region makes use of Pre-Commercial Procurement procedures to research and develop innovative solutions that contribute to societal unmet needs like Antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

In Sweden, harmonising sustainability criteria amongst different public authorities is important to reduce administrative burden and give a clear signal to the market through specialised collaborative networks that share expertise and tools.

Air pollution is a public health emergency. Health Care Without Harm works with health care professionals to help raise community awareness on the health impacts of air pollution and advocate for better policies.

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Representatives of ten hospitals came together with a group of issue experts in June to launch a…

Health Care Without Harm works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.

Health Care Without Harm, together with the World Health Organization, is a principle cooperating…