Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Green Group

Green Healthcare is a community group within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board focused around championing a more sustainable healthcare environment through support, engagement and learning.

The group was originally formed by colleagues in the ABCi team already pursuing routes in which staff could take towards enhancing their workplaces to be more sustainable. Recently the group has expanded to contain further colleagues from Anaesthetics, Pharmacy, Estates & Facilities, Communications and more.  It now works in tandem with the health board’s Decarbonisation board to act as a beacon of support for those seeking to make greener changes and celebrate changes already made so we can work together towards the goal of net zero carbon by 2030.

Projects have already taken place in the health board that the group are proud to celebrate including:

• Project Drawdown: Stoppage of Pollutive Desflurane across all sites
• Rewilding of green spaces at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Hospital
• Theatre equipment switch off procedures to reduce energy waste