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What is the Good Corporate Citizenship Assessment Model?
It's a tool to help you think about how you and your organisation can contribute to sustainable development. As a quick guide, where do you stand on these areas?
Putting social, economic and environmental considerations at the heart of your decision making
Ensuring your day to day activities support, rather than hinder, progress with sustainable development
Using your organisation’s purchasing power, influence and resources to help deliver strong, healthy and sustainable communities
What's inside the model?
Information on some key areas where you can be active with sustainable development
A self assessment test to help you understand and monitor your progress with sustainable development
Guidance on how to develop Good Corporate Citizenship in your organisation
Case studies with inspirational ideas on new things you can do
Resources to give you further information and other useful tools
A forum to allow you to network with your peers
What's in it for me?
Acting as a Good Corporate Citizen will help you and your organisation:
Achieve many health benefits for patients and populations – helping to tackle health inequalities and to move from treatment to prevention
Save money – through energy efficiency, waste reduction and careful use of resources
Engage with staff and the community, and lead by example
Contribute to UK climate change targets – 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, compared to 1990 levels
Why the NHS?
Think of it this way. With its focus on health and wellbeing, the NHS has a head start in contributing to sustainable development. However, there is much more to be done.
- The NHS employs 1.4 million people
- It has an annual budget of over £100 billion
- It has the largest property portfolio in Europe.
How the NHS behaves – as an employer, purchaser, manager of transport, energy, waste and water, as a landholder and commissioner of building work and as an influential partner in many communities – can make a huge difference to sustainability in the UK.
Who produced the Good Corporate Citizenship Assessment Model?
It was produced by the Sustainable Development Commission in 2006 with funding from the Department of Health, and later revised in 2009 in cooperation with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit.
