Hi Kate
There is a lot of work in this area across the country both at high level strategic stuff as well as small level QI things.
You may already know about all these organisations/resources but just in case these may be good place to start:
http://www.sduhealth.org.uk
https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/
http://www.ukhealthalliance.org/
https://noharm-europe.org/

Conference 2019

https://carewithoutcarbon.org/
https://www.nhssustainabilityday.co.uk/

I did a 1 year fellowship last year on sustainability with Sussex Community Trust and would be happy to talk further if want any further info. Claire

Hi Kate, as Claire says, there is now quite a lot of work in this area across the UK, so almost tricky to give a single response! At the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, i think that our biggest impact programmes are the Sustainable Specialties, where you work at a whole systems level across a whole specialty or discipline – combining research with networks of local champions, as well as input to policy and commissioning standards.

At an NHS Trust level, we run a programme called the Green Ward Competition which demonstrates how sustainability can inspire teams to develop brilliant QI projects and measure the impact on the triple bottom line (environmental /social/ financial). Several of the Trusts where we have run this are now looking to integrate sustainability across their QI work.

Here are a couple of links in case you would like to find out more:
Sustainable Specialties: https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/what-we-do/sustainable-specialties
CSH networks: https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/what-we-do/green-ward-competition
Green Ward Competition: https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/what-we-do/green-ward-competition

Hope that is helpful! Frances

Hi Kate,

North Bristol NHS Trust has a number of work areas that we would be happy to talk through with you. To get a flavour of what we do you might want to take a look at our annual Sustainable Development Management Plan which can be found on this page: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/our-standards/sustainable-development

Here are number of things that we do that might be of interest:

We use the NUS Green Impact staff award scheme to engage staff and drive behaviour-based environmental improvements.

We have strong links with the Trust’s Health and Wellbeing work programme and our active travel, lunchtime walks and biodiversity/green space projects form part of the Trust’s overall H&WB offering.

We have produced an Sustainability and Transformation Partnership-wide Climate Change Adaptation Plan which is set to be approved shortly and have an STP-wide Sustainability and Health Group which looks at ways to collaborate on sustainability/health across our region.

We have sustainability embedded into our Estates Strategy (and the draft STP-wide Estates Strategy too) which ensures that our future refurbs and new builds take full consideration of sustainability impacts and opportunities.

Similarly we have embedded sustainability impact assessment requirements within our business case approval process and annual business planning process.

We work with our Quality Improvement colleagues to identify sustainability impacts within existing QI projects and also the potential for projects which focus on sustainability. Together with this the Green Impact programme identifies many opportunities to develop more sustainable models of care and where these are identified the team produces an infographic to illustrate this improvement and raise awareness with others.

There are many other areas that might be of interest – please get in touch if you want to know more.

BW
Esther