To achieve a net-zero health-care sector, transformative changes in how we manage our facilities and deliver clinical care are required.
Healthcare sustainability initiatives should be embedded organisation-wide with a focus on governance & leadership, workforce education and engagement, clinical care delivery, facilities management and procurement.
This Hospital Sustainability Project Tracker, designed by Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA), is prepopulated with recognised initiatives to provide inspiration and guide hospital leadership teams, clinicians, health care professionals and staff to introduce environmental sustainability activities across the organisation.
Aligned to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience Healthcare Module, this resource focuses on mitigation (aiming to reduce the emissions associated with healthcare delivery) rather than adaptation (aiming to make our healthcare system more resilient to our changing climate). Use of this project tracker does not ensure that your organisation will meet all the requirements of the Module as this tracker was not developed by the ACSQHC.
Conditions of use:
Users of the Hospital Sustainability Project Tracker (Project Tracker) MAY:
1. Use the Project Tracker in ways that are in keeping with the goals of the Project Tracker in order to incorporate sustainability practices into health care organisations, including but not limited to incorporation of governance protocols, application of actions to incorporate sustainability practices, and implementation of reporting structures;
2. Share the Project Tracker including copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format; and
3. Adapt the Project Tracker including adding to and transforming the material.
Users of the Project Tracker MUST:
1. Attribute authorship of the Project Tracker to Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) and indicate if any changes were made to the original document
This resource is continually undergoing development and improvement, hence feedback is welcomed.
Please provide your feedback on this project tracker via this link
Download the Hospital Sustainability Project Tracker spreadsheet