We are very pleased to welcome back Elaine Gray, Purchasing Lead at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

You may remember we interviewed Elaine about her success in refurbishing 300 bins, saving £18,000 in the process, and about her organisation's experience of Warp It. Now, she is here to talk about some great news, having successfully been accredited the Revolve Standard.

Our team here at Warp It are really pleased to welcome back Elaine Gray, Purchasing Lead at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, back for another interview.

Cast your mind to this time last year. Do you remember when we shared a very interesting and inspirational story about an NHS organisation that saved £18,000 by refurbishing 300 bins instead of buying new ones? That was thanks to Elaine Gray and her team.

Well they are now approaching another milestone- £1 million in cost avoidance from their reuse activities!!

Firstly, before we dive right into the ways in which Warp It has impacted the shape and culture of the NHS and UK Healthcare in general, we want to say thank you.

We’d like to thank all of the brilliant professionals in the NHS who have supported our mission, thank you to those who bought into our reuse model, and every green champion that pursued having a Warp It reuse project installed in their healthcare facility. From our first hospital to our most recent, it is such a brilliant journey to be a part of, and the icing on the cake, winning NHS Supplier of the Year 2018, means a great deal to all of us here at Warp It.

Engaging your organisation in reuse is getting more and more popular each month, as we see and hear sentiment and content from all around the industry push this method of resource efficiency. Through Warp It, members have managed to save more than £13 million collectively, with almost £7 million coming from members of the £100k club!

Dear Warp It members who are part of the NHS, this post and download have been made especially with you in mind.

Warp It would like to introduce Nick Fayers for your reading pleasure. Nick is the Divisional Energy and Environmental Manager at Nottinghamshire Healthcare. He’s a wealth of knowledge when it comes to:

• Asset reuse in a large bureaucratic organisation
• Making the case for the continued investment in reuse
• Dealing with organisational structural problems when you are pushing for one objective

Nick’s experience with implementing reuse in Nottinghamshire Healthcare has been challenging but rewarding, as you’re about to learn. Some of the challenges are organisational issues that highlight some vitally important procedural barriers that need to be overcome. Which are worth highlighting!

We were awarded "NHS Supplier of the Year" at the NHS Sustainability Awards last Thursday!

The NHS is one of Britain’s proudest achievements. And today its staff do a superb job treating record numbers of patients. 

We are proud and honoured to help our NHS customers save millions of pounds by making it easy to reuse surplus furniture and equipment without the need for storage.

Thank you to all our customers who push us to be better at solving their surplus furniture and equipment problems.

As you might have seen we organise regional workshops to help organisations make reuse mainstream. We had the honour of having Fiona Daly, Sustainability Lead at NHS Improvement,  talking about how to get things done in large bureaucratic organisations.  She is an expert at creatively finding funding for projects that would otherwise stay on the wish list. (See here for example.) 

Warp It are pleased to welcome Mike Hodkinson from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Mike is here to add some insight into why his organisation opted to improve the reuse of surplus furniture and equipment, and how it has solved some of their waste stream issues.