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SusQI Showcase
May 2025

Thank you to all those who contributed to a successful 2025 SusQI Showcase Event.

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The event showcased local and international examples of integrating SusQI into education and practice, with the session divided into three topic areas:

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Part 1 - Putting the Sus into QI

Part 2 - Leading the change: Sustainable Transformation in Healthcare

Part 3 - Building a Greener Future

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Please see below for further details of our speakers, a synopsis of their content, and recordings of their presentations. 

‘A great showcase showing the incredible examples happening across the globe which is making a positive impact on all involved. Inspired by this learning and taking next steps!’​

2025 Showcase Attendee

Keynote: Using SusQI to transform healthcare clinical practice , Dr Heather Baid

Talk synopsis:​

  • The SusQI framework provides the scaffolding, language and tools to translate sustainability concepts into easily digestable project planning. 

  • The application of the framework continues to grow year on year. At the University of Brighton the SusQI framework is embedded across various healthcare disciplines in education and practice. 

  • SusQI enables collaboration with other organisations;                      "we're all trying to do the same thing, much better to work together on it".

Part 1: Putting the Sus into QI

Talk synopsis:​

  • Educators Dr Lorna Jackson and Kate Bazin from King's College London present two projects; one Physiotherapy focused and one Inter-professional focused. They collaborated with student partners to co-produce resources.

  • SusQI education is often discipline specific, however healthcare is delivered by multi-professional teams. Inter-professional education is the backbone of healthcare programmes with students learning from and with each other at the same time and there is value in shared sustainability education.

  • Sustainability can be an emotive and decisive topic and it is important to acknowledge and respect this within education and practice.

Talk synopsis:​​​

  • Approximately £50,000,000 of medicines is wasted annually in the care home pathway. This project involves 'Hubs' made up of care homes, their GP practices and associated community pharmacies. They employed the SusQI framework to identify opportunities for improvement to tackle this wastage. 

  • The project was well received by staff involved and identified a lack of accountability and training around medicine wastage which can be addressed through raising awareness, improving lines of communication between sites and dedicated education and training. 

Talk synopsis:​

  • SusQI Academy partners, Chris Hunt (Head of Improvement and Innovation) and Mary Pegington (Sustainability Officer) from Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust discuss their organisation's SusQI journey including progress made to date and ongoing challenges within the Trust.

  • The team has normalised sustainability and EDI metrics into their QI processes within the Trust;                                                                              â€‹"We made sure that sustainability was built into the way we do QI"

Part 2: Leading the change: Sustainable Transformation in Healthcare

Talk synopsis:​

  • ​South Health Campus (SHC), part of Alberta Health Services, Canada share insights from utilising SusQI to embed sustainabiltiy across their organisation, including running the first international Green Teams Competition.​

  • Key to their success has been senior leadership support, connecting and collaborating with motivated individuals and teams across the organisation and empowering trailblazers who are driving clinical transformation

  • "it is deeply rewarding....there is nothing quite like seeing your efforts ripple out and being able to make a difference"

Talk synopsis:​

  • KitNewCare is a pioneering EU co-funded project to make kidney care more environmentally sustainable.Hattie Atwell-Rogers and Dr Zuzanna Jakubowska discuss their roles within the project, challenges and successes.

  • Working internationally can throw up unique challenges for SusQI including the absence of a universal language for quality improvement.

  • A local Polish initiative involved transitioning to a paperless system in the haemodialysis service,“Going paperless isn’t just about removing paper—it’s about rethinking the entire workflow.”​

Part 3: Building a Greener Future

Talk synopsis:​

  • In this talk, educator, Dr Jocelyn Cornish and learner, Harry Simmons, join us to talk about the impact and application of SusQI education in clinical practice.

  • Harry shares his experiences of using the SusQI methodology he learnt as part for his Advanced Clinical Practice Masters within a clinical project focusing on reducing the number of unnecessary admissions through the Urgent Community Response service. 

  • "SusQI provides a practical support process to address identified quality issues in healthcare."

Talk synopsis:​​

  • Clare Topping, Head of Sustainability at Northampton General Hospital, discusses sustainability initiatives from three consecutive Green Teams Competitions and how they have progressed.

  • This talk demonstrates the ripple effect of SusQI in driving further change not just within their local departments but nationally.

  • "We've gone from affecting 1000 patient to potentially 100,000 patients across the NHS."

Please note due to technical difficulties during the SusQI Showcase, this link is for the same talk presented from the Green Maternity Challenge Showcase.

 

Talk synopsis:​

  • Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT (NNUHFT) present their winning Green Maternity Challenge project. 

  • This powerful talk includes patient testimonials of how introducing a virtual ward service for women with hyperemesis gravidarum using SusQI methodology significantly improves care for women and families whilst reducing hospital visits

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