Surgical Innovations Group PLC NHS Sustainability Webinar
June 04 2020 - 2:00AM
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Surgical Innovations Group PLC
04 June 2020
Surgical Innovations Group plc
(the "Company", "SI" or the "Group")
NHS Sustainability Webinar
UK subsidiary and distributor Elemental Healthcare Ltd to host
NHS Webinar
Surgical Innovations Group plc (AIM: SUN), the designer,
manufacturer and distributor of innovative technology for minimally
invasive surgery, announces that its UK subsidiary and distributor
Elemental Healthcare Ltd ('Elemental') is hosting an NHS Webinar on
'Sustainability and the Reduction of Plastic Waste in the Operating
Theatre' taking place today, Thursday 4 June.
The NHS Webinar is targeted at key NHS Professionals working in
Theatres, Procurement or managing sustainability programmes.
Elemental has positioned its laparoscopic portal product
portfolio, including SI YelloPort Plus(R) and Elite(TM) trocars, to
assist hospitals in their efforts to reduce plastic waste within
the NHS-wide drive to deliver this important objective. The NHS
commitment to the sustainability agenda comes from the highest
level of the organisation. Simon Stevens, CEO of the NHS said:
"It's right that the NHS and our suppliers should join the
national campaign to turn the tide on plastic waste. Doing so will
be good for our environment, for patients and for taxpayers who
fund our NHS ."*
Disposal of plastic waste by hospitals is a huge cost, both as a
direct cost and also the considerable cost to the environment as
all clinical waste is incinerated. Kits sold by Elemental to the
NHS can reduce plastic waste in a typical laparoscopic operation by
more than 80%.**
Adam Power, Managing Director of Elemental Healthcare Ltd
said:
"The NHS has rightly been focussed on managing Covid-19 over the
last three months, but we are seeing a considerable number of
trusts re-engage on sustainability and plastic waste management as
part of a long term strategy to reduce the NHS's carbon footprint,
a key part of their future plan. Elemental Healthcare has a
solution for operating theatre waste in the laparoscopic arena .
What is more, over the past few months we have witnessed severe
stress on the global supply chain and being a UK manufacturer is
being recognised as providing a local solution for our partners in
the NHS."
* At the time of launch of the NHS Long Term Plan to Reduce the
Environmental impact of the Health Service, Oct 2019
** www.elementalhealthcare.co.uk
For further information please contact:
Surgical Innovations Group plc www.sigroupplc.com
Nigel Rogers, Chairman Tel: 0113 230 7597
David Marsh, CEO
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser Tel: 020 7496 3000
& Broker)
Aubrey Powell (Corporate Finance)
Rachel Hayes (Corporate Broking)
Walbrook PR (Financial PR & Investor Tel: 020 7933 8780 or si@walbrookpr.com
Relations)
Paul McManus / Lianne Cawthorne Mob: 07980 541 893 / 07584 391
303
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