SUSTAINABILITY ARTICLES

Accounting for around 70 per cent of a care home’s energy costs, improving heating and water efficiency is the biggest lever for cutting bills. Craig Dolan looks at what care home managers need to know when considering new or upgraded systems.

JLA’s infection control expert Helen Buchan explores how care homes can make their operations more sustainable without increasing costs – or compromising the quality of their care.

While climate change has been identified as the century’s most pressing health threat, it also presents an unprecedented opportunity to redefine the social care environment. For care providers, this means rethinking all operations from the ground up, as Anthony Mann, business development manager at Acticare, explains

Ravi Sodha, director at care provider ACI Care, discusses the provider’s significant sustainability successes to date, and offers tips for other providers seeking to follow ACI’s example

With sustainability now on every provider’s radar, food waste is an important issue that cannot be ignored. Fortunately, a number of solutions are on hand, as Richard Woodward, general manager of care homes at apetito, explains