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Project completed as part of the Northampton Green Team Competition 2022.
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
Issue to be addressed:
Personal protective equipment (PPE) use increased over…
Key Learning Point: Purchase and use of a baling machine to compact waste can result in significant environmental and social savings with calculated actual financial saving.
Setting/Patient…
Created on
10 Apr 2024 •
by
Paul Williams, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Surgery Challenge.
Setting/Patient Group: Operating theatres
Issue to be addressed:
Aim to deliver more sustainable surgical care through two…
Created on
4 Aug 2022 •
by
Beatty J, Gan J, Robb H, Dryden S, Ortega P, Granger T, Russell B, Purkayastha S and Kynoch M
SusQI project improving access to electronic notes in the community delivered as part of The 2019 Barts Health NHS Trust Green Ward Competition.
Project Aims: To improve access to electronic notes…
SusQI project eliminating duplicate GP letters delivered as part of The 2019 Barts Health NHS Trust Green Ward Competition. This project was the competition winner.
Project Aims: To stop sending…
Project completed as part of the Barts 2019 Green Team Competition
Setting/Patient Group:Eye Treatment Centre
Issue to be addressed:
Ophthalmology services can contribute significantly to the…
Created on
13 Apr 2019 •
by
Eye Treatment Centre MDT (details in impact report)
The study analyses the impact of service provision at different locations on health outcomes, cost of service, carbon emissions and patients and their families.
Key learning point:
Offering telephone consultations to patients offers social and environmental benefits. Patients also reported an increased sense of empowerment and autonomy in the successful…
