Green energy projects as in solar generation on site, battery storage, and also look at wind generation for hospitals and health facilities

Employe qualified Environmental scientist or officers for these position in Health, who will research and apply environmental & sustainable

NSW MoH join Globally Green Health Hospitals & Climate Health Alliance. Most of the research and planning has been done.

Expand ++ Net Zero Leads: protected time for clinical staff to lead clinical sustainably projects - linked with local sustainability units.

The most cost-effective health-protective plan is to promote and protect breastfeeding by implementing the National Breastfeeding Strategy.

Allow clinicians to complete their non-clinical work sessions from home, saving many kilometres unnecessarily travelled by car.

fund sustainable positions in EVERY LHD

Mandate recycling water bottles and plastics that can be recycled in hospital services. Mandate projects that are working!

Free public transport for staff and people travelling to healthcare appointments to incentivise public transport. Use local food in hospital

Every unit / department needs to have a funded dedicated sustainability officer 1 day / week; grassroots change is imperative

Ditch the reliance on plastic water bottles: transition back to tapwater, reusable cups and jugs where water quality and supply is fine.

Every service needs protected time for a green team champion (eg 0.2 FTE) with support from management to meet sustainability KPIs

100% renewable energy ASAP, EV fleet cars and compost food scraps from patient and staff food eg with compost muncher machines

NSW Health must provide depts with additional resources to achieve netzero and does not expect us to achieve netzero using existing budgets.

NSW Health must provide depts with additional resources to achieve netzero and does not expect us to achieve netzero using existing budgets.

Stop requiring staff to change every time they leave the operating suite. This results in staff wearing several pairs of scrubs per day.

Use multi-use blood pressure cuffs in theatre, rather than single use disposable cuffs.

Dismiss the WSLHD policy of sterile gloves for ALL peripheral cannulas. This is wasteful and not evidence based.

Recycling for expired RAT tests

Have a central location where uniforms can be assessed for secondhand sale (online) or recycling.

Provide a pathway for transferring expired products (those that would still be effective) to other services (here or OS) eg hand sanitiser

Provide e-vehicle charging stations for staff especially where new hospital designs/plans are being proposed.

Giving all patients a reusable water bottle and coffee cup on admission to encourage use of taps and reduce single use plastic

Allow and encourage work from home for CNCs NPs and medical consultants when they do not need to be patient facing - use Telehealth more!