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Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
Aim:To reduce waste by moving patients medication with them and returning unused medication in a timely manner…
Published date
November 2023
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Claire Williams, Deputy Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Louise Bond, Deputy Lead Medicines Management Technician
This is an ongoing SusQI project as part of the South Warwickshire Green Team Competition 2023 by the Community Physiotherapy Team.Project Aim:reduce physiotherapy referrals from care homes by 35%…
This project was part of the 2023 Green Team Competition at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, implemented by colleagues from our care of the elderly wards.
Team…
How the environmental decline can affect mental health
As our planet faces unprecedented environmental challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the…
We participated in the Northampton Green Team Competition 2022 and decided as a department to look at our paper usage.
Over a 7 month period the Research Team printed nearly 120,000 sheets of…
This project was completed as part of the Northamptonshire 2022 Green Team Competition
Read our sustainability project on the positive impact reducing the administration of unnecessary doses of…
Published date
March 2023
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Leeanne Hardy: Senior Sister, Quality Service and Improvement, Critical Care
Project completed as part of the Northampton Green Team Competition 2022.Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wideIssue to be addressed:Personal protective equipment (PPE) use increased over the pandemic but…
Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Surgery Challenge
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
Issue to be addressed:
To eliminate the second group and save (G&S) blood test in the…
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…
Published date
October 2012
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Paul Williams, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust