Sustainable Futures Innovation Fund recipients

  • Healthcare (decarbonising clinical care)

    • Hunter New England Local Health District - Sustainable Neurodiagnostic Access Program using Limited Montage EEG (stream 1)
    • Northern Sydney Local Health District - Reusable Innovation for Greener Instrument Delivery (stream 1)
    • Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - INSIGHT program: An Implementation framework for safe, sustainable and cost effective chronic disease care models in NSW (stream 2)
    • NSW Ambulance - Decision Support tool for Low‑Carbon, Cost‑Effective and Fuel-saving Aeromedical Tasking (stream 2)

    Supply chain (reducing emissions from medical equipment and pharmaceuticals)

    • Enable NSW - EnableNSW and LHD Equipment Loan pools Co-design: improve processes to increase the return of medical equipment on loan (stream 1)

    Travel and transport

    • Western NSW Local Health District - Shifting Gears: Regional Green Travel Blueprint (stream 1)

    Climate adaptation/resilience

    • Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District - Invisible Victims: Building Resilience for People Who Use Drugs from Climate Hazards (stream 3)
    • Murrumbidgee Local Health District - Connect to Country: Aboriginal-Led Climate Disruption Planning & Governance Integration (stream 3)
    • Central Coast Local Health District - Yadha Gudjagang (Active Kids), Climate- Resilience, Community and Wellbeing program (stream 3)

  • Energy and assets

    • HealthShare NSW - Patient Transport Electrification System (stream 1)

    Reducing supply chain emissions from medical equipment and pharmaceuticals

    • Murrumbidgee Local Health District - Drone Medication Delivery System (stream 1)
    • Sydney Children's Hospitals Network - Carbon Stewardship Model of Care (stream 2)
    • Cancer Institute NSW - Reducing Consumables Waste in Clinical Trials (stream 1)

    Decarbonising medical and surgical clinical pathways

    • Hunter New England Local Health District - John Hunter Hospital outpatient consultations with Virtual Care (stream 1)
    • Agency for Clinical Innovation - Reducing Low Value Testing in ICUs (stream 1)

    Working together to achieve a low-carbon and climate-resilient health system

    • South Western Sydney Local Health District - ICU Haemodialysis (stream 1)

    Addressing climate risk and improving healthcare resilience

    • Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - Culturally Responsive Healthcare – Aboriginal Health (stream 1)
    • NSW Ambulance - Remotely Piloted Aviation Clinical Systems (RPACS) (stream 2)

  • Low-carbon models of care

    • Western Sydney Local Health District - Minimising Dialysis Waste Through Incremental Peritoneal Dialysis. For more information, visit Minimising dialysis waste through incremental peritoneal dialysis.
    • Northern Sydney Local Health District - Dialysis Water Recycling.​
    • Mid North Coast Local Health District - The Rational Cannulation Program - Reduction of unnecessary peripheral intravenous cannulas (PIVCs) in Emergency Departments and Hospitals. For more information, visit The Rational cannulation project.

    Pharmaceuticals and medicines/Net zero supply chain

    Staff education and engagement

    Climate resilience

    • Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network - A Pilot Project: Sustaining People, Land and Culture Through Growing Native Plants with First Nations Patients at the Forensic Hospital. For more information, visit The Bundaleer Project.
    • NSW Ambulance - Utilising Low-Carbon Remote Piloted Aircraft System Solutions to Support NSW Ambulance Aeromedical Operations. For more information, visit Using low-carbon drones.

    Energy, assets and travel

    • HealthShare NSW - Laundry Electrification Program.
    • NSW Ambulance - Developing Decision Support Capability to Optimise Asset Tasking within Aeromedical Operations.
    • Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - Neuropsychology Online - Reducing Carbon Emissions from Travel and Paper Wastage in ISLHD Rehabilitation and Medical Psychology. For more information, visit Reducing carbon emissions by adopting online neuropsychology assessments.

  • Clinical care transformation/Procurement and waste

    • South Western Sydney Local Health District - A glove reduction pilot project empowering staff to strengthen hand hygiene practices and limit waste from unnecessary non-sterile glove use. ​

    Clinical care transformation/Travel and transport

    • Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District - A virtual interpreting service for patients, families, and carers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the deaf community, reducing travel emissions. For more information, visit Virtual Health Interpreter Service.
    • Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - A pilot project using loaned devices to support virtual care tele-therapy, improving patient access to virtual therapy programs and reducing travel emissions. For more information, visit Virtually equipped therapy options (VETO).

    Procurement and waste

    • Sydney Local Health District - A study assessing the microbiology of patients' home devices to support the safe reuse of continuous positive airway pressure and non-invasive ventilation devices. For more information, visit Pressure to reduce waste.
    • Northern Sydney Local Health District - A pilot project developing an anaesthetic waste gas transformation unit to remove excess gases from the operating theatre before they reach the environment.
    • Central Coast Local Health District - A pilot project reducing the amount of reverse osmosis plant reject water within a renal dialysis service and reusing reject water for sanitary fixture flushing. For more information, visit Reuse of reverse osmosis plant reject water.
    • HealthShare NSW - An EnableNSW pilot project developing a circular model for home respiratory equipment, ensuring timely supply of essential equipment, reducing waste and carbon emissions. For more information, visit The Going Circular Pilot.

    Energy and assets/Procurement and waste

    • South Eastern Sydney Local Health District - A pilot project replacing single-use plastic with reusable sterilised hollowware to reduce waste in operating theatres. For more information, visit Reusable sterilised holloware for use in operating theatres.
    • Murrumbidgee Local Health District - A pilot gardening and composting project for mental health, drug and alcohol consumers. For more information, visit Let's go green.

    Pharmaceuticals and medicines

    • South Eastern Sydney Local Health District - A medication blister pack recycling program to recapture single-use plastic and aluminium waste from pharmaceuticals.
    • Western NSW Local Health District - A medication blister pack recycling program reducing the volume and cost of pharmaceutical waste in Western NSW. For more information, visit Medication blister pack recycling program.

    Clinical care transformation/Pharmaceuticals and medicines

    • Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - A pilot project to improve antimicrobial prescribing through intravenous (IV) antimicrobial therapy, reducing waste and carbon emissions. For more information, visit Intravenous to oral antimicrobial switch.

    Clinical care transformation

    • Mid North Coast Local Health District - A pilot vegetable garden and outdoor play area for Port Macquarie mental health consumers. For more information, visit Grow and play.

    Pharmaceuticals and medicines

    Travel and transport

    • ​Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network - A pilot project for more environmentally sustainable transport (e-cart) options to deliver clinical goods across the Long Bay complex.

    Energy and assets

    • NSW Health Pathology - A pilot project installing sensor taps within the NSW Health Pathology Dubbo Laboratory to conserve water and support energy efficiency.
    • Sydney Children's Hospitals Network - A pilot project using green transport (WeWatt bike) to power personal devices within a large tertiary children's hospital.​
Current as at: Friday 26 June 2026
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