CLIRE

Illustration: Ingrid Henell

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CLIRE – Climate friendly health and care

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CLIRE is an EU project run by Region Skåne and City of Malmö. The project will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and at the same time function as a demonstration project for climate smart health and care services. The project is run with support from the EU's LIFE+ environmental fund.

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LIFE09 ENV/SE/000347 CLIRE The project is run with support from the EU's LIFE+ environmental fund.

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project manager Anna Palminger, tel +46 (0)40-675 30 95

Health and care in the future

Climate friendly health and care

Illustration: Ingrid Henell

Climate-smart care in the future – CLIRE shows the way Region Skåne is responsible for health and care services in Skåne.

Care can consist of anything from advice over the telephone to visits to a primary care unit or specialist care at a hospital. City of Malmö's home health care service can also offer care in the home to some patients.

Swedish health care is resource-intensive. Every health care visit involves material being used, waste being produced and transport being required to move patients, staff and materials.

Electricity and heat are consumed in the buildings. Consumption of resources within health and care services leads to emissions of various kinds, including carbon dioxide. This means health care contributes to modern day climate change and environmental issues.

The CLIRE project is run by Region Skåne together with City of Malmö.

Within CLIRE there are four subprojects that work together towards a shared goal. The project will show how both the regional and municipal health care sectors can halve their climate impact.

Consumption with low climate impact within health care

Energy efficiency in a hospital building

Each year Region Skåne purchases, among other things, 40 million gloves, 32 million paper towels and 7 million syringes for its activities.

The region has conducted a survey of the climate impact of health care services, which shows that use of materials causes considerable emissions of carbon dioxide. In this subproject, purchasers and clinic representatives will work to produce a procurement process with the aim of reducing climate impact from the consumption of goods by health care services.

The building that houses the clinics of Hand Surgery and Urology at SUS has been made more energy efficient. This has taken place in close collaboration with the clinics and other users of the building. The subproject will show that it is relatively simple to achieve GreenBuilding certification for an existing hospital building, which means that today's energy usage is reduced by 25%. For example, in order to reduce the need for air conditioning in the building, a green roof of sedum will be laid.

The climate-smart clinic The Hand surgery clinic and the Urology clinic at Skåne University Hospital (SUS) in Malmö will show the way to the new, climate-smart health care of the future. These clinics will work actively to change work routines and methods in order to be able in future to work using climate-smart solutions with less climate impact. As a result of this work, a guide will be produced. This guide will help staff to make better choices. In the hand surgery ward, a treatment room will be converted to make it more climate friendly in order to meet future requirements.

100 % renewable energy in municipal health and care City of Malmö is working to increase the renewable energy. The buildings at Sege Park in Malmö have been selected because they house some care services. The buildings are to be made more energy efficient, and locally produced energy sources are being investigated as options for heating the buildings. A guide will be produced, containing tips on how staff can use property management to reduce the buildings' climate impact.