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Independent healthcare providers celebrate Earth Day
22/04/2025
This Earth Day, read about IHPN's work to support our members on their journey to Net Zero
Net zero
IHPN is committed to tackling the climate change emergency by delivering a wide-ranging programme of work to support members in this area. Click here for more information on the IHPN net zero commitment.
News
IHPN and ABI unite to support independent health sector progress in achieving “net zero”
20/11/2024
IHPN and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have joined forced to support the independent health sector to better demonstrate the progress being made in achieving net zero carbon emissions.
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Looking ahead in light of COP29
19/11/2024
IHPN is the membership association for independent healthcare providers and for the past three years we have been actively supporting our members in their own efforts towards net zero. It is increasingly becoming clearer that although speed is of the essence it is not important who is first across the line but rather how quickly we can support everyone to finish.
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Not much COP?
20/12/2023
As COP28 has now drawn to a close, Charlie Boyd reflects on the major developments and the implications for healthcare.
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What we'd like to see from COP28
04/12/2023
IHPN Policy Officer Charlie Boyd looks forward to upcoming sessions at COP28 which hopefully will bring a more overt focus on the relationship between climate change and population health, and how this might influence our own work in our journey towards Net Zero.
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We're not net zero until we are all net zero
30/11/2023
With COP28 now underway, attention will once again turn to matters of environmental policy and how nations around the world can tackle climate change. Danielle Henry reflects on our own work with the independent healthcare sector, recent developments, and where we go next.
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Countdown to Net Zero Conference
13/09/2023
Danielle Henry talks, ahead of our inaugural Net Zero conference on September 18th, about what's in store
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Net Zero Resource Pack
10/08/2023
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New report launched on independent health sector’s progress in delivering net zero
09/11/2022
IHPN launches its new report looking at the independent healthcare sector's progress in delivering net zero
Reports
Clearing the air - how the independent sector is working to achieve net zero by 2035
09/11/2022
To mark COP27 and the one year anniversary of IHPN’s industry-wide pledge to achieve net zero by 2035, this report sets out the independent health sector’s progress in reducing carbon emissions.
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Clearing the air – how healthcare providers can cut emissions from anaesthetic gases and inhalers
22/04/2022
To mark Earth Day 2022, IHPN's Danielle Henry and Kelly Marsh reflect on whether we are all doing what we can in the race to achieving net zero, particularly around the use of medicines, notably anaesthetic gases and inhalers.
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The role of healthcare in tackling climate change - is the weather about to change?
20/12/2021
Much has been written about climate change in the past few months as the great and the good converged on Glasgow in November for the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. IHPN's Danielle Henry looks at the drivers to becoming net zero and how are they “changing the weather” around the climate change debate.