What do you think of these new Sustainability Quality Improvement projects?
Dr Munro Stewart is leading a SusQI project in general practice that aims to reduce salbutamol prescriptions by improving asthma care. Salbutamol prescriptions over 3 inhalers a year is a sign of poorly controlled asthma. Reducing salbutamol prescriptions by improving asthma care will help improve patient health and reduce the general practice carbon footprint.

Embedding Sustainabilty across Cornwalls NHS.
Heather Walker at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is leading a project to integrate Sustainability into Quality Improvement across Cornwall’s NHS. The aim is for the Triple Bottom Line to become fundamental to any organisational changes as well as patient care. Part of the process for embedding sustainability will be training for staff about how to study the system and identify the triple bottom line benefits of their proposals.

Green wheels – ebike sharing scheme at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to make community mental health visits more sustainable. Dasal Abayeratne who is leading the SusQI project aims to increase sustainable active travel usage for work related travel by the end of 2020. Dasal said ‘[he would] love to work with any other teams looking to do similar work. Project is still underway and under evaluation but the carbon and cost savings so far are encouraging!’.