I am an Improvement Practitioner working at the RUH, Bath. Today, we held our relaunch of the Green Endoscopy Group. Lots of ideas, but we are focussing on some 'quick' wins to be begin with and would appreciate advice from other teams:
1. Reduce plastic/paper Cups: we want to ask patients to bring in empty reusable drinks containers to fill after procedure. Concerns were raised that patients may fill with water and drink prior to their 'NBM' treatment. Has anyone tested this?
2. Replace Inko pads and bed sheets (used during upper & OGD procs) with paper equivalent where possible: advice appreciated. If you have CO2e for inko pads?
Many thanks - hope to hear from you soon.
I have contacted a rep in Boston Scientific who kindly referred us to their Sustainability officer. Will meet them on June at the BSG so we could get some recycling plan for our unit. Currently, anything with tissue samples on are not allowed to be recycled in our Trust.