Three Horizon Europe projects are working on the same problem from three different directions: how European healthcare can cut its environmental footprint without giving up anything patients need. On the morning of 30 September they will sit in one room and compare notes in public.

The session, titled “From Evidence to Action: Advancing Sustainable Healthcare through Measurement, Digital Innovation and Implementation — Insights from Three Horizon Europe Projects”, runs from 09:00 to 13:00 at the Malmö Arena Hotel in Malmö, Sweden, alongside Sustainable Healthcare Week and a day before the 8th Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare.

KitNewCare comes at the problem through measurement and benchmarking, using four-factor life-cycle assessment to weigh health, cost, social and environmental impacts across the kidney-care pathway. NetZeroAICT looks at what AI-enabled change can reduce or replace in resource-intensive clinical processes, and at how to do that without losing trust or safety. CARING NATURE works at hospital level, on food-waste treatment, participatory staff engagement, telemedicine and energy optimisation.

What the organisers wanted to avoid was three project updates delivered back to back. The morning is built instead around one question: what do measurement, digital innovation and operational change have to teach one another? Which metrics tell you what to try first, and what does the experience of implementing something send back to the people who chose the metrics? The aim is to surface what the three have in common, in barriers as much as in enabling conditions: data that does not exist, staff already stretched, procurement rules, an organisation that is not ready to change.

Three themed sessions, each led by the project best placed to lead it, each followed by short contributions from the other two and time for questions. KitNewCare opens on measurement. NetZeroAICT takes digital innovation. CARING NATURE has operational change after the break. The morning closes with a panel and small-group discussion, which is where the healthcare providers, policymakers, researchers and industry representatives in the room get to say whether any of it is useful to them.

The full agenda is coming soon

Healthcare professionals, policymakers, innovators and sustainability experts are all welcome. Refreshments are provided; coffee starts at 09:00 and lunch runs from 12:30. For bookings and enquiries, contact John Kellas at john.kellas@nds.ox.ac.uk.

More info and registration are available here.

* Cover photo by Antoni Shkraba.