Developing Environmentally Sustainable Models of Care is crucial for the NHS and part of our Sustainable Development Framework and Action Plan. One area of high importance we need to look at is Emergency Departments.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has an initiative to measure and reduce the environmental impact of Emergency Departments and putting sustainable practices at the heart of the specialty of Emergency Medicine. As part of this, Clinicians working in NHS Lothian and NHS Fife have developed a framework of evidence-based actions which can support net zero targets, provide financial savings and maintain or improve patient care.
The webinar is led by Dr Jen Wood, Medical Education Fellow in Environmental Sustainability who covers her experiences of working on the development of the framework and in ED in Fife and now Lothian.
Also speaking is Dr George Narayananmenon, an Edinburgh graduate and the A+E Sustainability Fellow in Northumbria. Northumbria was awarded Bronze and Silver accreditation this year by Royal College of Emergency Medicine and gives firsthand account of how using the Green ED frameworks allowed Northumbria to make sustainable changes in their clinical areas.
