What is this webinar about?
The medical devices industry is highly complex and diverse, so how do you tackle sustainability across such a large portfolio?
For some answers, join the free healthcare webinar we're running on 24 September as part of BSI's Net Zero Week 2024.
This webinar will cover:
- what manufacturers are doing to prioritise net zero objectives and actions;
- the challenges that distributors are set by manufacturers;
- the NHS's new Evergreen Sustainable Supplier Assessment;
- how else the NHS might influence medical devices manufacturers to become more sustainable;
- how the UK government intends to build UK global leadership in medtech sustainability; and
- manufacturers' net zero objectives and where standards fit in.
Webinar details:
Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Time: 10.00 – 12.00 GMT
Location: Online
Our Speakers:
Lord James O’Shaughnessy
Senior Partner, Newmarket Strategy and Former Health Minister
James is co-founder and Senior Partner of Newmarket Strategy, a consultancy dedicated to
improving access to health innovation by providing strategic advice and technical support to
the healthcare, life sciences and health tech sectors. He is also a non-executive director at HDRUK
and the Albion Development VCT plc.
improving access to health innovation by providing strategic advice and technical support to
the healthcare, life sciences and health tech sectors. He is also a non-executive director at HDRUK
and the Albion Development VCT plc.
Dr Philip Korsah
MBChB, FFARCSI, AFICM
MBChB, FFARCSI, AFICM
National Associate Clinical Director – National Centre for Sustainable Delivery (Scotland)
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Philip held different medical leadership portfolios in NHS Ayrshire & Arran as Associate Medical
Director (AMD) with our Women, Children and Diagnostics Directorate, moving on to being
responsible for the Medical Directorate, then as Chief of Medicine for University Hospital
Crosshouse and finally as Associate Medical Director for Surgical Services (including Cancer
Services).
Director (AMD) with our Women, Children and Diagnostics Directorate, moving on to being
responsible for the Medical Directorate, then as Chief of Medicine for University Hospital
Crosshouse and finally as Associate Medical Director for Surgical Services (including Cancer
Services).
Dr Mary O'Riordan
Co-founder, HaPPE Earth
She has been 18 years in clinical medical practice, the last 8 of those involved with Public Health Medicine, specialising in Emergency Response for Highly Emerging, Infectious Threats. She has been the International Health Regulations (IHR) and ECDC Irish Focal Point representative for emerging infectious threats.
