CSEP-ABHI Joint Workshop on Sustainable Medical Instruments
The NHS has legally binding targets of net zero emissions by 2045 for its supply chain that accounts for approximately 75% of the NHS’s total carbon footprint. This is a transformation of unprecedented scale that involves over 600,000 products sourced from 80,000 suppliers. At the heart of this transformation lies medical technology. With the NHS spending over £9 billion annually on medical devices and equipment, manufacturers, suppliers, and innovators who move early on reusability, remanufacturing, and sustainable design will be best positioned to shape and win the contracts of the future.
Your expertise and voice are essential to this conversation. We are convening a workshop at Imperial College, in collaboration with the Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance and the Association of British HealthTech Industries, to bring together industry leaders, clinicians, hospital management and procurement leaders to explore what this transition means in practice: the evidence gaps, the commercial opportunities, the design challenges, and the policy levers that will determine who leads the UK’s sustainable medical technology revolution.