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Department of Health

Key contributions to sustainable development:

  1. The National Health Service (NHS) as a Corporate Citizen. Continuing to work with SDC’s Healthy Futures Programme to make the links between sustainable development and health. Central to this is the NHS’s ‘Good Corporate Citizen’ web-based tool, which enables NHS organisations to self assess and improve their performance as corporate citizens.  Over 400 organisations have registered to use this model, including over 200 NHS bodies.
  1. Commissioning Framework for Health & Well-Being (2007). Key recommendations from this publication,  which had a strong focus on the role of commissioners in creating healthy, safe, sustainable communities and improving well-being, are being taken forward in the 2008/09 Operating Framework and the World Class Commissioning Programme.
  1. Healthy Sustainable Communities. We are continuing to fund, extend and evaluate the current healthy communities initiative, to promote action across local organisations – voluntary sector, NHS, local authorities, business and industry – on a locally-chosen priority for health and build momentum for future change
  1. Health Impact. Regional Public Health Groups are working to integrate health with Sustainability Appraisal, and with Strategic Environmental, Health Impact and Equalities Impact Assessments, in the evaluation of regional strategies.
  1. NHS. There is now a newly established SD Unit in the NHS, based in the East of England SHA, with which DH is working to align DH and NHS strategies for Sustainable Development.
  1. An SD Strategy. Work is underway on an SD Strategy for the Department of Health, to complement the NHS strategy, embed sustainability in policy-making and identify the policy levers that can drive this agenda forward, particularly in relation to reducing carbon emissions.
  1. Carbon Management Plan. We are working with the Carbon Trust to develop a carbon management plan for DH and some of its Arms Length Bodies.

DoH - Sustainable Development Action Plan

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Updated: 19 March 2008