Sustainability and Social Value

We are committed to incorporating sustainability into all aspects of our business.

At NHS SBS, we are committed to ensuring our services help to improve health outcomes, reduce the impact on the planet and deliver our services with purpose.

We believe that long term value comes from seeing success as part of a bigger picture encompassing people, the planet, and a sustainable business. Through our Sustainability and Social Value team, executive sponsorship and all of our colleagues, we work to ensure our business can support and enable sustainable economies, communities and the NHS.

Our colleagues at NHS SBS are passionate about working for a sustainable organisation and they care about ensuring the work we do has a positive impact, which is why strive to embed this into everything we do.

Our success as an organisation - and our ability to make a meaningful difference - means that we must consider the impacts of our business in all of these areas and determine how best we can apply our capabilities and resources to address them.

SSV pillars

Our sustainability and Social Value Team

We have a dedicated and experienced sustainability and social value team across NHS SBS which is supported by Executive Level sponsorship. However, we recognise that it is everyone's job to ensure we're a sustainable organisation and that's why we have an engaged and committed 'Social Value Champions' network to support the delivery of our objectives.

Sustainability news from around the business

NHS Shared Business Services has a new partnership to ensure our equipment is reused and recycled.

If you have ever wondered what happens to computer equipment that we no longer need, you are about to find out! At NHS Shared Business Services, we are excited to announce that we have a new partnership with DSA Connect to ensure not only that our equipment is reused and recycled, but also being used as a force for good.

NHS Shared Business Services volunteers spent a day creating a community garden in Longsight, Manchester

Recently, a 20-strong group from our Procurement Solutions team donned gardening gloves as they spent a day creating a community garden in Longsight, Manchester in partnership with SNUG (Sustainable Northmoor by Urban Greening) and Sow the City as part of our NHS SBS 'Healthy' Social Value programme.

NHS Shared Business Services volunteers pick up paintbrushes and shovels to jazz up Bristol care home and garden

NHS SBS volunteers switch monitor, mouse and keyboard for shovels paintbrushes and gardening gloves to spruce up a Bristol residential care home.

NHS SBS and Birmingham's Active Wellbeing Society get the gloves on to glam up community wellbeing garden

NHS SBS teams up with The Active Wellbeing Society to transform Victoria Road Surgery garden and bring social prescribing project for patients, to life.

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