Hi everyone! I've been offered a job as a sustainability fellow in my A&E. 80% of my time will be spent doing clinical work, the rest will be related to sustainability. This is a new role to my trust and I'd have a flexible scope in what I was keen to do. I'm probably going to apply to ACCS EM at some point in the future and I was just wondering what kind of projects/QI projects would be suitable to organise and what use this role would be for an application into ACCS in the future?
Job offer - how can this help!
Congratulations! Great projects would be: reducing unnecessary cannulas or bloods, implementing asthma guidance to use AIR/MART instead of MDI salbutamol, looking at the food provided (why can't all the sandwiches be plant based?)... make sure you connect with the Green ED guys.
Congratulations! Have you considered ensuring good systems are in place for medicine management? Medicines make up ~20% NHS carbon footprint, and this does not include the devastating effects on biodiversity when unwanted medicines enter the environment....so to look at reducing medicine waste would be excellent (& can also save money). Hope the role goes well
This is great your trust has such a role.
I would suggest:
Are your crutches/boots etc single use? If so, make them reusable!
Removal of single use suture packs/instruments and use CSSD instead.
Rationalise what is in your procedure packs.
Removal/massively limit entonox and use Penthrox instead.
Basics like recycling bins.
Gloves off campaign.
Hi Isabelle, I'm a Sustainability Clinical Lead and also from an ED background. Happy to have a chat on Teams. gareth.thompson2@nhs.net
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