NHS: Plastics
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help reduce single use plastics in NHS services.
This question was answered on 23rd November 2022
In October 2020, NHS England published ‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service’, in which the National Health Service set out its ambitions to meet net zero emissions by 2045, including a 10% reduction in clinical single-use plastics in the short term. The NHS will work with suppliers on the introduction of lower carbon products.