QI Practitioner - Greener NHS
Caring for our planet is caring for our patients
Do you have a passion for reducing the carbon footprint of the NHS? Maybe you have ideas, but you're not sure how to implement them? Then our Greener NHS QI Practitioner programme is for you and your team. Designed to support green sustainability using improvement approaches.
What it provides:
- Support and encouragement to teams to deliver green initiatives
- Learning about QI methods and approaches
- Dedicated time and focus on your green initiative
- Opportunity to work alongside likeminded colleagues
What it involves:
- Support and agreement from your service line manager
- Four days of externally facilitated workshops, commencing in April 2023
- Working together with patients and people to make a sustainable green initiative
What it includes:
- Change management
- Green measurement
- Sustainability
- Patient/people participation
Example:
- Return and reuse equipment
- Decreasing single use products
- Drones delivering vital chemotherapy to the IOW
- Change to powder-based inhalers