Our Responsibility

Our Responsibility

At Touch Medical Media, we are dedicated to environmental stewardship, ethical practices, and social responsibility. We’re reducing our environmental footprint, promoting digital learning, and managing waste responsibly. Our content creation adheres to high ethical standards, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and respect for diversity. Through partnerships and initiatives, we enhance access to quality education and healthcare globally, contributing to the well-being of communities worldwide. Our continuous improvement sets a positive example in online medical education.

Our Focus Areas

  1. Improving Lives of Patients
  2. Empowering a Diverse Workforce
  3. Minimizing Environmental Impact
  4. Operating Ethically and Responsibly

Our Current Impacts

Environmental Sustainability
  • Virtual Meetings: Reduce travel via video conferencing.
  • Remote Work Benefits: Decrease commuting emissions.
  • Sustainability Standards: Follow the GHG Protocol and ISO 14001.
  • Proactive Environmental Actions: Engage in community and charitable initiatives.
  • Working with Carbon Jacked: To calculate our annual carbon footprint, plant 10 trees a month per employee, and tackle climate change in National Parks in the UK and internationally.
Social Sustainability
  • Health and Safety: Comprehensive policies and flexible working hours.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: Non-discriminatory hiring and fair wages.
  • Mental Health Support: Access to mental health resources, stress management programmes and counseling.
  • Community Engagement: Encourage volunteering and support local causes.
  • Compliance Policy: Follow PMCPA (ABPI) Code of Practice, EFPIA Health Care Practitioner Code, Sunshine Act, PhRMA Code on Interactions with HCPs, and industry regulations.
Economic Sustainability
  • Data Protection: ICO member, implementing robust policies to safeguard information.
  • Sustainability Reporting: Regular updates on initiatives and progress.
  • Partnership Development: Strengthen relationships with strategic partners, clients, and supporters.
  • Employee Progression: Encouraging personal development and training opportunities.

We have taken significant actions to become a more sustainably run business. We’ve planted thousands of trees to offset our emissions, established our baseline carbon footprint calculation, and provided educational materials to all our employees. As we advance our educational goals, we also push forward in sustainability.

Take a look at our Carbon Jacked climate action page to see how we support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

 

Our Sustainability Goals

 

Strategy and Action Plan
  • Encourage environmentally friendly travel for business.
  • Work with suppliers whose sustainability values align with ours.
  • Enhance methods for accurate carbon footprint calculation.
Monitor and Measure Progress
  • Measure our carbon footprint annually.
  • Conduct regular assessments and audits to evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability policies and identify areas for improvement.
Knowledge Sharing
  • Stay updated on new sustainability trends, technologies, and regulations.
  • Report and communicate progress both externally and internally, and celebrate success.
  • Provide training and awareness programs for employees and stakeholders on sustainability practices and their importance in the context of medical education.

 

Introducing the Sustainability Team

Charlotte Riley

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