NHS Shared Business Services

We are committed to incorporating sustainability into all aspects of our business.

At NHS SBS, we are committed to ensuring our services help to improve health outcomes, reduce the impact on the planet and deliver our services with purpose.

We believe that long term value comes from seeing success as part of a bigger picture encompassing people, the planet, and a sustainable business. Through our Sustainability and Social Value team, executive sponsorship and all of our colleagues, we work to ensure our business can support and enable sustainable economies, communities and the NHS.

Our colleagues at NHS SBS are passionate about working for a sustainable organisation and they care about ensuring the work we do has a positive impact, which is why we strive to embed this into everything we do.

Our success as an organisation - and our ability to make a meaningful difference - means that we must consider the impacts of our business in all of these areas and determine how best we can apply our capabilities and resources to address them.

Social Value in action

Reuse and recycle - working with a prison workshop programme

NSH SBS have a partnership with DSA Connect to ensure not only that our equipment is reused and recycled, but also being used as a force for good.

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Helping grow food in urban spaces

A 20-strong group from our Procurement Solutions team swapped laptops for wellies and gardening gloves as they spent a day creating a community garden in Longsight, Manchester in partnership with Sustainable Northmoor by Urban Greening and Sow the City as part of our NHS SBS 'Healthy' Social Value programme.

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NHS Shared Business Services volunteers pick up paintbrushes and shovels to jazz up Bristol care home and garden

A group of volunteers from NHS SBS, have for one day switched monitor, mouse and keyboard for shovels, paintbrushes and gardening gloves to spruce up a Bristol care home, getting it spick and span for its occupants this summer.

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NHS SBS and Birmingham's Active Wellbeing Society get the gloves on to glam up community wellbeing garden

NHS SBS has joined forces with The Active Wellbeing Society to bring the next leg of one of the Society's fantastic social prescribing projects - the creation of wellbeing garden at Birmingham's Victoria Road Surgery, to life.

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Insights

Celebrating young innovators: TeenTech Awards 2024

Jul 9, 2024, 14:40 PM

Title* : Celebrating young innovators: TeenTech Awards 2024

Becky Davis was a lead judge for the Best Innovation Award at the recent TeenTech Awards filled with inspiring and passionate young innovators. Take a read about her experience.

by Becky Davis, Consulting Director, Sopra Steria Next

Recently, I had the incredible honour of serving as the Lead Judge for the Best Innovation Award at the TeenTech Awards, Years 7-11 category.

The TeenTech Awards bring together some of the brightest and most passionate young innovators. What stood out to me the most was the boundless energy, technical ability, and deep product knowledge displayed by these students.

I left the day filled with admiration and inspiration from the young people I met. Their enthusiasm was infectious, and it was evident that they are not just future technologists but current trailblazers in their own right.

I loved their focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), sustainability, and health and that this community is not driven by profit but by the genuine desire to make the world a better place. Their commitment to addressing real-world problems with creativity and compassion was evident in every project.

There was a running theme in all the conversations I had; low-cost, high-value solutions that aimed to benefit humanity, society, their peers. It was a refreshing reminder of what true innovation looks like, unhindered by the constraints of the commercial world we often find ourselves in today.

The winners in my category? It was a tough call. But a clear winner did emerge: Morpho. An innovative, technical solution that reimagines how we may decorate our homes, offices and shopping spaces in the future; an immersive, sustainable and personalised replacement for paint and wall coverings. Two amazing young women who connected the disciplines of physics, maths and computer science to create a new technology, undergoing a personal journey of self-education in python and circuit boards and product development. I loved it!

Being able to connect back into community is such a privilege and highlight of my job. Sopra Steria supports every single employee in our UK Buisness to give back to our community with three days volunteering a year. After a day of volunteering at the awards, I finished my week feeling inspired, energised, and alive! I look forward to seeing how these young innovators will continue to grow and impact the world in the years to come.

Here’s to the future—a future that is undoubtedly bright with the creativity and ingenuity of these young minds leading the way.

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Our sustainability and Social Value Team

We have a dedicated and experienced sustainability and social value team across NHS SBS which is supported by Executive Level sponsorship. However, we recognise that it is everyone's job to ensure we're a sustainable organisation and that's why we have an engaged and committed 'Social Value Champions' network to support the delivery of our objectives.