The barriers and facilitators to the design and delivery of sustainable healthcare across NHS Scotland: A forcefield analysis.

Healthcare systems around the world have set ambitious targets to design and deliver more environmentally sustainable healthcare. To achieve these targets, individuals, teams, organisations, and whole systems will have to change current attitudes, practices and processes. Change management theory advocates for early identification of the influencing forces to change, so that actions can be taken to overcome the barriers and strengthen the facilitators to increase the likelihood of success.