healthcare

'World first': AstraZeneca granted UK license for 'near-zero' emission inhaler medicine

Supply chain

'World first': AstraZeneca granted UK license for 'near-zero' emission inhaler medicine

Pharmaceuticals giant claims its respiratory medicine can be used in a new climate friendly inhaler that promises 'near-zero global warming potential'

clock 12 May 2025 • 4 min read
Pharmaceutical giants team up on effort to combat carbon emissions from clinical trials

Supply chain

Pharmaceutical giants team up on effort to combat carbon emissions from clinical trials

Pistoia Alliance brings together likes of AstraZeneca, GSK, and Pfizer to develop industry-wide standard for measuring CO2 from clinical trials

clock 24 March 2025 • 3 min read
Rye community hospital ditches fossil gas boilers in net zero drive

Energy

Rye community hospital ditches fossil gas boilers in net zero drive

EXCLUSIVE: Rye, Winchelsea & District Memorial Hospital believes it is on course to become the UK’s first 'carbon neutral' community hospital

clock 21 August 2023 • 3 min read
Hoopsy launches home pregnancy test made from 99 per cent paper

Technology

Hoopsy launches home pregnancy test made from 99 per cent paper

Firm says product will tackle ‘shocking’ amount of plastic waste caused by 12.5 million home pregnancy tests annually

clock 25 July 2022 • 1 min read
Extreme heat emergency: More than a billion people facing heat risks without improved access to cooling

Climate change

Extreme heat emergency: More than a billion people facing heat risks without improved access to cooling

New report suggests investment in suppotrt of the UN Sustainable Development Goals could protect 450 million people by 2030

clock 17 May 2022 • 3 min read
Deloitte and AstraZeneca join fresh drive to tackle healthcare waste and emissions

Management

Deloitte and AstraZeneca join fresh drive to tackle healthcare waste and emissions

Sustainable Medicines Partnership to launch four year programme next year aimed at developing greener solutions in healthcare sector

clock 01 December 2021 • 2 min read

Management

Health Care Without Harm: Thousands of hospitals sign up to Race to Zero campaign

Leading hospitals join UN-backed Race to Zero campaign, as pharma giant GSK confirms role as COP26 partner

clock 27 May 2021 • 2 min read

Supply chain

NHS becomes world's first health system to commit to net zero

Plan includes a string of new targets and commits NHS to reducing emissions under its direct control to net zero by 2040, before bringing its supply chain footprint in line by 2045

clock 01 October 2020 • 4 min read

Waste

Vegan, compostable bandages? Meet the firm healing the planet one plaster at a time

James Dutton started making eco-friendly plasters from bamboo fibre in his kitchen four years' ago - now the brand is available in 36 countries around the world

clock 21 November 2019 • 7 min read

Risk

HSBC: Climate-related health costs could near $10tr by 2050

Climate impacts are set to exacerbate strain that ageing populations are already placing on health systems in 11 key emerging economies, according to a major new report from HSBC

clock 11 November 2019 • 4 min read