Circular Healthcare | News & Blog posts
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Driving change | Lessons from Milan's Towards Sustainable Healthcare conference (26/10/2023)
Removing harmful PVC from healthcare (15/05/2023)
Reducing plastic from the Cyprus healthcare system (19/04/2023)
Webinar | Reducing exposure to toxic plasticisers in PVC medical devices (13/04/2023)
Sustainable lessons in healthcare | Member placement - North Bristol NHS Trust, UK (06/04/2023)
Lessons in toxic-free circular healthcare | Member placement - Region Västra Götaland, Sweden (06/02/2023)
Webinar [FR] | Transformer les soins de santé grâce à l'alimentation durable (23/01/2023)
Webinar | Reducing plastic and harmful chemical exposure to children [EN, FR, ES, NL] (07/12/2022)
Webinar | How to reduce the impact of plastics in healthcare [EN, FR, ES, NL, EL] (28/11/2022)
Circular Healthcare training for GGHH members (31/08/2022)
Webinar | Safer medical devices: Implementation of the EU MDR and EUDAMED database (24/08/2022)
Promoting sustainable food contact materials in French and Dutch (17/08/2022)
Reducing plastics in healthcare toolkit now in French and Dutch (28/06/2022)
A step forward in phasing-out harmful chemicals: The role of healthcare (16/06/2022)
Reducing plastic in healthcare | Best practice (06/06/2022)
Crunch time for the EU – restrict hazardous chemicals affecting infants (03/03/2022)
Webinar | The role of chemistry in sustainable medical textiles (15/02/2022)
Translated chemicals of concern criteria now available (26/01/2022)
New criteria for sustainable healthcare products (24/01/2022)
The role of chemistry in sustainable medical textiles (08/12/2021)
Promoting sustainable food contact materials in Spanish and Portuguese (24/11/2021)
Measuring and reducing plastics in Spanish healthcare (28/10/2021)
Webinar | Safe and sustainable chemical management in healthcare [EN/ES] (19/10/2021)
Measuring and reducing plastics in the healthcare sector (23/09/2021)
Sustainable food contact materials in healthcare (01/07/2021)
Video | Supporting patient health through proper disinfectant use (28/06/2021)
Why PVC remains a problematic material (23/06/2021)
Event | Tackling harmful chemicals in the healthcare sector (15/06/2021)
Webinar | How to measure and reduce plastic in healthcare (09/06/2021)
Event | Driving the circular economy in healthcare through innovation procurement (31/05/2021)
Webinar | Tackling harmful chemicals in medical devices (26/04/2021)
Prevention is better than cure: Phasing out hazardous chemicals (20/04/2021)
Building resilience: Evaluating the case for reusable medical protective clothing (26/03/2021)
On the road to circular healthcare - reusing medical devices (25/03/2021)
Is the regulation of nano/biocide-treated articles sufficient to protect health and environment (19/02/2021)
Medical textiles - why chemistry matters (18/12/2020)
Sustainable healthcare waste management (03/12/2020)
Promoting safer disinfectants in the healthcare sector (25/11/2020)
Tackling endocrine disrupting chemicals in healthcare facilities: Initiatives from France (29/09/2020)
Safer disinfectants workshop now online – register today (18/03/2020)
Registration open | Promoting safer disinfectants in the global healthcare sector (26/02/2020)
Strategic procurement in European healthcare now available in Spanish (27/01/2020)
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in healthcare: Reducing exposures for patients (22/01/2020)
Strategic procurement in European healthcare (18/12/2019)
Prevention is better than cure: Non-toxic Healthcare (05/12/2019)
Workshop | Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in healthcare: Reducing exposures for patients (04/10/2019)
Towards sustainable healthcare and a healthy environment (01/10/2019)
Toxic and persistent chemicals in medical textiles (03/10/2019)
Towards sustainable healthcare and a healthy environment (01/10/2019)
Four EU countries announce plans to phase out mercury fillings (28/08/2019)
A significant step towards safer chemicals in medical devices (19/07/2019)
Webinar | Promoting safer disinfectants in the healthcare sector (27/06/2019)
Lessons in sustainable procurement from Region Västra Götaland (30/04/2019)
A powerful political message towards effective protection of health (25/04/2019)
Setting sustainability criteria in healthcare tenders (27/03/2019)
(Man-made) antimicrobial resistance in hospitals (26/03/2019)
Substituting medical devices: Lessons from Europe and Morocco (26/02/2019)
Moving towards a phase-out of dental amalgam in Europe (07/02/2019)
Procuring safer medical devices (21/01/2019)
Towards an EU phase-down of mercury in dentistry (16/01/2019)
Medical Devices Regulation – Looking ahead to 2019 (21/12/2018)
Survey on procurement and application of disinfectants in healthcare (19/12/2018)
Participate in HCWH Europe’s new project on disinfectants used in healthcare! (24/09/2018)
Sustainable procurement: The (un)expected strategy to achieve healthier environments in healthcare (06/09/2018)
Webinar | Medical Devices Regulation – Heading in the right direction? (24/08/2018)
New publication - Dental Amalgam in the EU: Heading towards a phase out? (19/03/2018)
Urge MEPs to reject the flawed EDC criteria tomorrow (03/10/2017)
NGOs write to ENVI committee that waste should not be a renewable energy source (03/10/2017)
ENVI committee objects to the European Commission's flawed EDC criteria - next steps (28/09/2017)
Call on MEPs to protect human and environmental health from EDCs (20/09/2017)
The importance of sustainable food procurement in healthcare (28/08/2017)
An historic day: Minamata convention enters into force today (16/08/2017)
EDCs and declining fertility rates (28/07/2017)
Madrid goes EDC free! (25/07/2017)
I can't believe the news today (05/07/2017)
BPA a substance of very high concern - Implications for the Medical Devices Regulation (21/06/2017)
EDC criteria update (27/02/2017)
Indecision, hesitation, and delays (23/02/2017)
REACH identifies four EDCs (20/02/2017)
Progress update | Safer Chemicals (20/01/2017)
A group of scientists reveal that water boils at 60° Celsius (16/12/2016)
Proposed Mercury Regulation – Will the EU Council grasp the nettle? (26/10/2016)
Celebrating 20 years of campaigning for sustainable healthcare (08/09/2016)
EDC criteria - European Commission consultation biocide regulation (29/07/2016)
REACH Committee approves use of DEHP in recycled PVC (25/04/2016)
When economy meets sutainability (07/03/2016)
EDC-Free Europe Calls on Environment Ministers to act on EDCs (29/02/2016)
Watch | HCWH Europe Deputy Director on Dutch TV Show 'Radar' (09/02/2016)
European Commission Committed to Presenting EDC Criteria before Summer 2016 (08/02/2016)
82 NGOs Co-Sign Letter to the EC Calling for Rapid Implementation of the Minamata Convention (19/01/2016)
European Commission 'Breached Law' on EDCs Criteria Definition Delay (17/12/2015)
18 NGOs Co-Sign Letter to MEP regarding Upcoming Medical Device Regulation Negotiations (12/11/2015)
New Podcast | HCWH Europe at SAICM ICCM4 (03/11/2015)
First in vitro tests of PVC-free Blood Bags have started at Karolinska University Hospital (28/10/2015)
PVC free Blood Bag Webinar Taking Place on October 22nd (07/10/2015)
HCWH Europe Joins the Call for Amalgam Phase Out (07/10/2015)
HCWH Speaking out for Healthcare at SAICM ICCM4 (07/10/2015)
HCWH Europe Welcomes the Endocrine Society's Scientific Statement on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (28/09/2015)
HCWH Release Position Paper & Infographic about Pharmaceuticals at SAICM ICCM4 (28/09/2015)
Time to phase out hazardous chemicals from medical devices (08/05/2015)
Prenatal exposure to phthalate DEHP affects development of baby boys (19/02/2015)
No Consumer health risk from BPS' is misleading (22/01/2015)
Sustainable healthcare in 2015: What to expect from HCWH Europe (14/01/2015)
Joint Intervention at SAICM Open Ended Working Group meeting (15/12/2014)
Budapest workshop on environmental sustainability in the health Sector (27/11/2014)
Demands for an EDC-free Europe in open letter to President Juncker (21/11/2014)
Bologna workshop on sustainability in the Healthcare Sector (17/11/2014)
City of Vienna leads the way in sustainable procurement (15/10/2014)
Registration now open for webinar on EDCs in healtcare (28/08/2014)
EU experts unable to agree on EDC threshholds approach (01/08/2014)
Protection of environment & health must be at the centre of EDC governance in Europe (23/06/2014)
Dutch report reveals millions of syringes are leaching BPA and BADGE (24/03/2014)
Europe needs to increase its effort to reduce cancer rates through changes in environmental policies (04/02/2014)
The new EU Directive on public procurement: a step forward for sustainable public procurement (15/01/2014)
Victory in the European Parliament for the ban of hazardous chemicals in medical devices (22/10/2013)
HCWH-WHO: Mercury-Free Healthcare Worldwide by 2020 (11/10/2013)
ENVI Committee supports the phase out of hazardous chemicals in medical devices (26/09/2013)
European healthcare professionals and patient groups want to end the use of hazardous chemicals in devices (10/09/2013)
HCWH Europe launches Declaration on Safer Medical Devices (27/06/13)
Minor Victories Offer Hope for Public Health (24/06/2013)
Increasing momentum for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): relevant actions at EU level (09/04/2013)
Towards a European healthcare that does no harm to citizens and the environment (22/03/2013)
European Parliament calls for effective legislation to minimize risks from endocrine disruptors (13/03/2013)
The European Parliament calls for better protection of human health from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) (23/01/2013)
France's important move towards phasing out phthalates in Medical Devices (13/10/2012)
