Supporting a green and just transition for NHS Scotland

Products and Services

This theme explores ways to address the unsustainable consumption of materials in healthcare by adopting circular economy principles to reduce waste and improve practices.

The current level of consumption of materials in the healthcare sector is not sustainable. It is the root cause of the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

The projects in this theme explore ways to reduce product and service consumables and alter systems by adopting the circular economy principles of redesign, reduce, repair, recycle and recover. Doing more with less.

Our co-design approach is auditing current approaches and diagnose issues to identify new opportunities to reduce waste and improve practices in collaboration with clinicians, nurses, support workers, administrators, and other healthcare related professionals.

A collaborative project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Future Observatory programme, and led by the University of Strathclyde and University of Dundee (DJCAD), with Heriot-Watt University, Abertay University, and the University of Edinburgh, NHS Scotland, industry partners, and public sector stakeholders.