Environmentally sustainable health care services policy

It is imperative that the design, construction and operation of health care facilities, including aged care facilities, ensure both sustainably healthy workplaces for nurses and midwives and healing environments for patients. Sustainable health care facilities are better places to work, more cost effective, better places to heal, can contribute to wider health benefits for the community and can contribute to the national emissions reductions targets (Green Building Council Australia, 2019).