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    Victoria Stanford posted an update in the group Sustainable Healthcare 1 year, 11 months ago

    We were happy to be joined by so many QI educators and practitioners at our Q Community event last week on ‘Embedding Sustainability into Quality Improvement’. We’d like to carry on the conversation here and ask your thoughts on some of the important questions that came up: What is the best way of integrating sustainability into QI education and training for health professionals? How do we support projects, embed the triple bottom line as a concept and train up supervisors? How do we deal with resistance to sustainability-focused projects?

    You can also find the recording of the live event below.

    [bpfb_video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5l2koqZfs[/bpfb_video]
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      Heather Shearer replied 1 year, 10 months ago

      I was sorry not to make the event. We have a significant number of quality improvement, medical student-led, projects happening every year (20odd group projects and 50 or so individual projects). An increasing percentage of those projects have a sustainability theme (eg inhaler switches, recycling, active commuting, waste reduction). Whilst concepts like understanding the problem and small tests of change seem easily applicable from ‘standard QI’ measurement is a challenging area. We’d be delighted to have a conversation about this; would people be interested if we hosted a conversation in the autumn and invited some of our students to share their work too? They could have some useful insights in how to integrate too

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      Frances Mortimer replied 1 year, 10 months ago

      Hi Heather, I’d definitely be interested to join a conversation about measuring sustainability impact of QI projects – agree it can be intimidating for students and supervisors. We have been trying to make practical and simple tools to help (see http://susqi.org/measuring-impact) but it’s an ongoing process!