Hi all,
We recently collaborated with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children NHS FT in our Green Team Competition programme. The competition has projected annual savings of £284,098 and 4,797 kgCO2e (equivalent to driving 14,167 miles in an average car).
You can read the Impact Report here.
Summary
The winning team, Pharmacy, empowered children who have undergone heart or lung transplants to switch from liquid to tablet medications. This can have clinical benefits of improving adherence to medication and reduces demand for medications of which there are national shortages. The project also saves nursing time while reducing carbon and bringing significant financial savings to the trust. The project is scalable to a variety of medicines and patient groups – examples of this can be seen with initiatives such as KidzMeds in Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle and Pill School at Evelina Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Other projects looked at returning and reuse of mobility equipment (Physio and Occupational therapy), refurbishing of glasses frames (optometry), reuse of feed hanging bags (nursing) and optimising sustainability of augmentative and alternative communication devices (Speech & Language Therapy).
Please do get in touch if you have any questions about the projects and methodology used.
The case studies are there to be shared - so please pass on to your colleagues or use them as examples through your meetings/trainings, etc. You will find projects from previous competitions in the resource library as well.
With the competition ending, the GOSH sustainability and QI teams are continuing to work together to support the teams next steps for sustaining/embedding and spreading projects can be achieved. To start, the winning team will be presenting at the next GOSH Governer's meeting.
Snehal Bakrania, Medicines information pharmacist and member of the winning green team summarised her experience;
“I have thoroughly enjoyed doing this project alongside Sadhna [Sadhna Sharma, Cardiology Pharmacist]. It is extremely encouraging to see patients be able to take control of their own care and work together with them and their families to ensure the best outcomes. Although it was only launched in a small cohort of patients, the environmental and financial outcomes we came out with were a lot and gives me courage to attempt to expand this project going forward.”
Best wishes,
Rachel
(SusQI lead for competitions and specialty challenges)
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