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GHG Accounting Approaches for Healthcare Products & Pathways

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17th February 2015Tom Penny ([email protected])

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Coalition for Sustainable Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices

Aim

■ To enable the transition to more sustainable healthcare products and services internationally through promoting best practise and developing sustainability tools and guidelines related to pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Objectives

■ Acting as the convenor of expertise related to sustainable pharmaceuticals and medicals devices and disseminate best practise throughout the healthcare system globally.

■ Developing tools and guidelines to support global healthcare in achieving more sustainable healthcare products and services through a holistic life cycle sustainability approach.

■ Monitoring and updating existing tools and guidelines developed by the coalition to ensure their applicability (eg carbon footprint guidance).

Administration

■ SDU acts as secretariat■ Meetings every six months■ www.sduhealth.org.uk/cspm

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GHG Accounting of Healthcare Products

GHG guidance document■ Drafted GHG sector guidance for pharmaceuticals and medical devices

to allow for more simple and consistent quantification of carbon footprint of healthcare products.

■ Modular approach to product life cycle (eg chapters for appraising API manufacture, packaging, distribution, etc).

■ Reviewed by WRI and ‘Built on GHG Protocol’approved.

■ Freely available on GHG Protocol and SDU website.

Top prescription items■ Identify likely highest GHG intensity

prescription items to NHS carbon footprint.

■ Contact suppliers to provide GHGinformation to update NHS footprint.

■ Aim to reduce footprint of NHS over time.

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GHG Accounting of Healthcare PathwaysSustainable Care Pathways Project

■ Develop freely available guidance allowing interested parties to investigate and understand the sustainability aspects of healthcare pathways globally; and

■ Enable sustainability considerations to be more easily taken into account in a transforming global healthcare system.

Guidance Document■ General information on how to appraise care pathways

■ Care pathways broken into modules (expandable over time)

■ Detailed guidance on modules and provide information for combining modules into care pathway

■ Each module includes definitions, activities, flow diagram, reference unit, example data and calculations

■ Example calculations to appraise sustainability metrics (more to be added over time)

■ Example case study to be included (diabetes with more added over time)

GP Consultation Patient Travel

Emergency Department

Visit

Inpatient / Bed Day

Surgical Procedure

Condition Self

Management

WasteWaterGHGs

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Example Module: GP ConsultationDescription: A GP consultation is a patient attending a face to face consultation by a General Practitioner, delivered in a General Practice.

Unit of Analysis: A patient of defined age group, with a specific condition, attending a GP consultation at a general practice in a geographical area.

Calculation steps: How to calculate impacts for specific scenario.

Activity Data: Generic data collected from Trusts.

Emission Factors: Sourced from GHG Protocol, ecoinvent, ELCD, US LCI, Defra/DECC, ICE, etc.

Metrics: estimates of GHG, water& waste for a generic GP consultation.

Priority Areas: Identifying hotspots &activities to improve sustainability.

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Sustainable Care Pathways Project

Mapping a Care Pathway■ Develop flow diagram and identify modules that make up the pathway.

■ Collect and model data for significant modules using guidance.

■ Use module sustainability estimates for non-significant modules and for screening.

■ Important to note document is dynamic – further modules, metrics and case studies to be added over time.

Progress■ CSPM initiated project in December 2014

■ Workshops held with technical experts to define and scope modules

■ Completing first draft of guidance

■ Data collection to start imminently

■ Project completion aim for May 2015

Important to note first version and many gaps (modules, metrics, etc) developed over time but CSPM as good first step

GP visit x1

In patient

x1

Surgery x1

Hospital bed day

x3

Out patient

x1

Care pathway