Types of Sustainability and Value projects and benefits
Sustainability and Value provides tactical support and through the Project Management Office (PMO) oversees 100s of projects a year that range in scale and duration. Each Project can be accounted for on a Recurring and Non-Recurring basis.
Examples of various Projects:
- Recurring savings from changes in drug prices.
- Recurring savings from the change of consumables used in clinical procedures.
- Non Recurring savings in the reduction of agency staff used in a department.
- Recurring savings delivered through service redesign.
- Cost avoidance through the use of alternative methods of service delivery to manage increased demands.
Waste Projects
The waste policy has been revised to reflect the commitments NHSGGC is making to meet legislative obligations and targets as a key part of our Scope 3 emissions towards Net Zero and Climate Change. This is a change of direction from the previous policy and focuses on the environmental impact of waste and our ambitions to reduce that impact.
NHS Scotland is committed to meeting the requirements of Scotland’s Zero Waste Plan through the Policy and Waste Management Action Plan as well as through short-term, medium-term and long-term projects to increase resource use efficiency and improve sustainability practices.
Our Future Waste Management Model
- Prevent and Reduce – Through our sustainable procurement and clinical sustainability group we will work to prevent, reduce and reuse waste.
- Reuse and Recycle – Implementation of waste segregation within clinical settings to increase segregation of non-contaminated waste into recycling stream and move away from single use items.
- Recover / Dispose – Implement recycling facilities at source for general waste in public and staff non-clinical areas.
There have been various projects and initiatives involving waste minimisation in order to be more sustainable. Clinical waste segregation is a significant and on-going project, as well as improving recycling facilities across all GGC sites.