Point-of-care diagnostics are saving lives, but at a steep environmental cost. With billions of plastic tests discarded annually, can the healthcare industry reinvent diagnostics to be both effective and sustainable?

The virtues of medical plastics have a dark side: where do discarded devices go? Can we redesign them to reduce, reuse, or recycle our way towards a more sustainable economy?

The PASS-UP framework offers a practical, evidence-based approach to reduce single-use plastics in health care, promoting sustainability without compromising safety, effectiveness, or affordability through collaboration, redesign, and targeted reduction.

Intelligent healthcare and realising the potential of the Internet of Medical Things take the top spots on the medtech industry’s agenda, but where does that leave sustainability?