Sustainability: A New Paradigm

Invent: Health

Sustainability is a word now ubiquitous in healthcare. But too often it is thought about with a short-sighted lens, promoting potentially superficial changes in micro areas over innovations that would reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint on a macro level. So how can we solve this?

What could a new paradigm for discussing sustainability in healthcare look like?

In this episode of Invent Health, we meet the people seeking to create one, by focusing on the wider impact of medical devices to keep people out of hospital, with the potential to reduce carbon footprints on a huge scale.

Find out more on this week’s episode of Invent Health from TTP.

This Week’s Guests:

Ama Frimpong - Ama Frimpong is the head of product development at 52 North Health - a company that works across the medical device space as they seek to improve health outcomes by reinventing care pathways using affordable, human-centred technologies. With a materials and mechanical engineering background, Ama also has a real grounding in medical devices, from laparoscopic instruments to orthopedics. She was also recently awarded the hugely prestigious ‘young woman engineer of the year’ award for 2022 for her work with 52 North.

Freddie Scott - Freddie Scott is a strong proponent of every industry playing an active role in tackling Climate Change. At TTP, he was part of the passionate sustainability team, who have developed a method for assessing the environmental impact of medical devices in the context of their wider care pathway. By exploring the downstream emissions of products, the scope for design interventions to reduce their environmental impact becomes increasingly broad and impactful; enabling the decarbonisation of healthcare in the shortest time possible.

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