We’re here for a reason:
To make healthcare sustainable
Born to solve a problem
Medsalv was born out of a desire to eliminate the growing environmental and financial waste in New Zealand's Healthcare Sector, and we’ve found a way to do that and support those with barriers to employment in the process.
Single-use device remanufacturing is the practice of taking medical devices and subjecting them to specific processes, to make them clinically safe and suitable for reuse, despite them being labelled ‘single-use’.
The processes use a variety of proprietary equipment not found in hospitals, and therefore they cannot be undertaken by hospitals themselves. As a result of our work reprocessing, thousands of supposedly ‘single-use’ medical devices are no longer going to landfill after just one use: They are being safely reused, and hospitals have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result.
We’ve designed our entire business model with social, environmental, and financial sustainability as the goal, and so we’re able to employ people who face barriers to employment to keep products out of landfills and in use, while also providing a tangible cost saving to hospitals under financial pressure.
In dollar terms, we've only scratched the surface in New Zealand and Australia with our existing programmes;
We think the total wasted value from discarded devices equates to more than 100 million dollars per year.
We're setting out to change that.
Why we’re here
Our purpose is to Make Healthcare More Sustainable - Socially, Environmentally, and Financially
Learn how big the problem is:
How we help
We help Australasia’s Hospitals be more sustainable.
We do this by reprocessing Single-use Medical Devices that would ordinarily go to landfills, then returning them to hospitals for safe clinical re-use at a lower cost than the original.
This reduces hospitals’ spending on Single-use Medical Devices and reduces the volume of Single-Use Devices sent to landfill.
Sustainability isn’t just about the environment
Environmental, Financial, and Social Sustainability are core to our mission, but they are only a small part of sustainability as a whole.
Learn how we are directly contributing towards a better New Zealand and Australia with our direct actions on 7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in our day to day work.
Social Sustainability at Medsalv
A core part of our mission is Social Sustainability and employing people with barriers to employment.
Discover what this means, what we actually do and why we do it, here.
Our Supporters
We have been lucky to receive support from several exclusive funding partners, helping us deliver more sustainable healthcare to New Zealand and Australia.