Thank you for the opportunity to share our experiences so far, at the event – we are in the process now of morphing our current QI practice into SusQI. We have been practicing the Virginia Mason form of QI since 2013, so my immediate plans are as follows… I’d love to hear from others on their experiences and any advice!
1. We need to blend the Sus element into our training materials and tools, across three levels of training, all currently provided online.
2. Create and share some basic Carbon Literacy training to complement our QI materials.
3. Enable our QI Team to become confident in the Sus elements, and for our Sus Team to become confident in the QI elements! Linking our respective dashboards and websites so people see the connections.
4. Blend Sus into our Quality Awards and Share and Spread practices.
5. Reach out to clinical services separately on their ideas for sustainable clinical models and align these to their QI projects already in the programme for this year.
6. Consider not only how we work together as Integrated Care Systems on QI and Green (separate working groups currently) but on SusQI too as ICSs.
7. Try some simple SusQI projects, become familiar with tools and data, and create some engaging case studies to share with staff.
8. Start to talk about SusQI with our service users through Involvement and Co-Production, and with our Governors, hopefully encouraging a Governor Ambassador to work with our Green Team.
9. Finally, SusQI will have a strong presence in our Green Plan and outcomes from SusQI will be reported through our Strategic Group to Trust Board on a monthly basis.

Sorry to have missed this event but thanks for the link! We are gradually embedding SusQI but are still learning. We have the Continuous Quality Improvement team on board who have adapted QI training to include triple bottom line. We have a Green Champions Network and within this QI workstreams on Inhalers, Air Quality, Food, Anaesthetic gases. Relies on a few keen people still so still evolving to make SusQI easy to access and action. The most successful (and fun) groups are multidisciplinary and flexible so eg rotating junior doctors can drop in and out, but core group of senior clinicians/strategy/QI team/estates maintain momentum. Hoping to develop this further with SusQI priming sessions and drop in support in the future…. Would be keen to hear of other people’s successes/ideas/structures.