To offer the best possible care, hospitals are required to change towards sustainability. A key role in designing a shared culture of sustainability can be assigned to middle managers. Middle managers are able to formulate ...

This research was conducted in the Operating Rooms department of a Dutch academic hospital. In this thesis, I focused on the development of a framework for benchmarking sustainability in an OR-department, in order to support ...

Sustainable development has been one of the most urgent challenges for the healthcare sector. Such an important development asks for a great movement initiated by a group of internal actors that together deliberately ...

This master thesis study focussed on the implications that need to be considered when developing the ‘Green Barometer’ as accountability system for sustainability, for operation rooms in and between hospitals. The two main ...

The ageing of the population and the rising costs of professional care challenge the current welfare system. This forces people to take care of themselves and to rely on informal caregivers. Informal caregivers provide ...