National University Hospital (NUH) and LASALLE College of the Arts have launched the Sustainable Medicine Design Lab to develop design-led solutions for more sustainable healthcare systems. The lab will bring together clinicians, designers, and students, and was developed by LASALLE’s BA (Hons) Design for Social Futures programme in partnership with NUH’s Department of Ophthalmology and the NUHS Office of Sustainability. The inaugural lab produced six final-year student projects after a year of immersive research, fieldwork, and ethnography with healthcare stakeholders. Several of the projects are already under review for real-world implementation. The projects include a redesigned cataract operating theatre, a reworked surgical procedure tray, interventions to reduce pharmaceutical waste, a toolkit to improve clinic environments, design-led tools to improve patient eye health literacy, and recommendations to address gaps in healthcare sustainability initiatives. https://sbr.com.sg/healthcare/news/nuh-lasalle-launch-sustainable-medicine-design-lab (ICE SINGAPORE)

Fonte notizia: Singapore Business Review, 4 June 2026