Public Health Minister Caroline Flint MP has launched a web-based self-assessment model to help NHS organisations measure and improve their sustainable development performance.
The Good Corporate Citizenship Assessment Model was produced by digital communications agency Redweb for the Sustainable Development Commission as a website and CD.
Redweb’s Andrew Henning said: “It encourages NHS organisations to take a Good Corporate Citizen test, which examines how they contribute to local economies, community cohesion, a healthy environment and contains resources and case studies to help people improve.”
By improving sustainable development performance, NHS organisations could benefit from financial savings, a healthier population, faster patient recovery rates and improved staff morale.
The model takes into account how the NHS behaves as an employer, as purchaser of goods and services, as manager of transport, energy, waste and water, as a landholder and commissioner of building work and as an influential neighbour in many communities - all of which can make a difference to people’s health and to the well being of society, the economy and the environment.
NHS Good Corporate Citizenship Assessment
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