Sustainability Quality Improvement
Victoria's first beacon site for environmentally sustainable healthcare.
The University of Melbourne is an established SusQI beacon site and member of the SusQI Academy as recognised by the Centre of Sustainable Health Care (CSH). The SusQI Program is accredited by the Centre for Sustainable Health Care in Oxford, United Kingdom, a world leading centre for sustainable healthcare research and practice.
As a beacon site, The University of Melbourne has been recognised as an organisation that has integrated environmental sustainability into the way we educate and train our students and and health professionals in quality improvement.
Quality Improvement is an essential aspect to continually advance the quality and safety of care provided to patients. The Sustainable Quality Improvement Program (SusQI), developed by CSH, aims to embed environmental sustainability principles and techniques into established quality improvement and clinical practice.
Enterprise Professor of Sustainable Healthcare Eugenie Kayak, Dr Sonia Chanchlani, and Dr Ben Dunne are developing an interprofessional SusQI workshop with the aim to train health professionals and students to implement SusQI projects to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare. This training is also delivered as part of the Sustainability and Healthcare subject in the Graduate Certificate of Climate and Health.
The University of Melbourne is committed to supporting students and staff in taking concrete action to achieve environmental sustainability as recognised in the UoM Sustainability Plan.
"Action-focused education is key to enabling the clinical workforce to understand, manage and mitigate the health effects of climate change and to apply the principles of environmentally sustainable healthcare to build the skills necessary for system transformation at the speed and scale required," says Dr Sonia Chanchlani.
Environmental Sustainability in Quality Improvement for Healthcare Workshop
Wednesday 16th October, 2024
8.00am to 12.00pm
This workshop is designed for clinical and non-clinical staff interested in environmentally, socially and financially sustainable healthcare.
Using the Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) approach, quality is introduced as
a tool to create more environmentally and socially sustainable healthcare services.
Participants will learn about the link between health, healthcare and the environment and ways to implement change in workplace practices.
All participants will be supported to develop a workplace project plan and calculate associated carbon emissions.
The program is led by academics and health professionals with extensive experience in implementing sustainable healthcare initiatives in health services.
Registration includes morning tea, pre-reading, a 4-hour face-to-face workshop and an optional online mentoring session.
Cost
Senior medical practitioner: $500
Student: $50
Other (e.g. nursing, allied health, junior doctor/trainee, University of Melbourne staff member): $200
If you are interested in participating in future SuSQI or Carbon Footprinting workshops, please fill out this form.
Contact Sonia.Chanchlani@unimelb.edu.au for more information.