After completing the Sustainability in Quality Improvement course, academic and clinical educators can join this mini-course to practice integrating sustainability concepts into mainstream quality improvement teaching.
- Workshop: Thursday 16 January 2025 [9.00-11.30 GMT]
- Workshop: Wednesday 12 March 2025 [14.00-16.30 GMT]
- Workshop: Thursday 22 May 2025 [9.00-11.30 BST]
Book here £100 + VAT
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Course Description
Students and trainees in the health professions are increasing expected to demonstrate skills for quality improvement and for ‘net zero’ healthcare. This short course helps educators and trainers to integrate sustainability concepts into mainstream quality improvement teaching and training. It is applicable to all health professions at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Supported by Health Education England, King's College London and the Health Foundation.
This course is endorsed by 
“This framework has radically altered how I approach quality improvement, in how I deliver quality improvement to the students I teach, in my own practice and in how I appraise the work of others”
- Noreen Ryan, Domain Lead for Quality Healthcare, Imperial College London School of Medicine
Prerequisite for joining course:
Completion of the e-lfh session on Environmental Sustainability in Quality Improvement or the CSH course Sustainable Quality Improvement or familiar with content of susqi.org
Learning outcomes:
- Apply sustainable healthcare concepts to quality improvement education;
- Use SusQI to increase learners’ motivation for healthcare improvement;
- Adapt examples of SusQI projects to your teaching context;
- Develop tools to assess student learning
Part I. Self Study Module
You will need 2-4 hours to review the course materials and SusQI Educator pack with template teaching sessions, student project resources and case studies.
Part II. Live Workshop
This 2.5 hour interactive online workshop includes a review of the self-study material with Q & A. Then, in small groups you will take part in a demonstration of SusQI teaching and explore different approaches. By the end of the workshop you should feel equipped to integrate triple bottom line principles into Quality Improvement teaching.
Courses are facilitated by experts drawn from the faculty below:
Dr Frances Mortimer
Frances is CSH Medical Director and led the development of the principles of sustainable clinical practice and the innovative Sustainable Specialties programmes. She has a particular interest in engaging health professionals in clinical transformation and sustainable leadership.
Siobhan Parslow-Williams
Siobhan is the CSH QI Education Lead, working nationally to integrate sustainability into quality improvement healthcare education. She is a registered nurse with a background in emergency nursing, primary care, clinical research delivery, management and teaching. Siobhan graduated from the NIHR Advanced Leadership Programme in 2019 and is the founder of the grass-roots movement Parents for Future in Norwich and also co-founded Eco Action Families.
Dr Rosie Spooner
Rosie is a Paediatric Trainee (St5) in Severn Deanery who has taken up the post of QI Education Fellow at CSH from 2020-2021, working with universities and postgraduate education programmes to support the integration of sustainable healthcare into Quality Improvement teaching. She comes from a background in environmental activism and previously established a hospital allotment society whilst a medical student in London.
Kathleen Leedham-Green
Kay is a doctor working within medical education, mostly primary care. She supported the introduction of sustainability learning outcomes into our core curriculum at KCL through a global health webinar on climate change and a sustability impact assessment element to quality improvement projects. She also taught on the social and behavioural determinants of health including a set of e-learning modules on patient-centred approaches to addressing obesity in a consultation. At Imperial she introduced environmentally informed medicine into their social accountability agenda and quality improvement modules. She also supports faculty development in education and scholarship, leading the Clinical Teaching Fellow faculty development at Imperial College and teaches on the masters in clinical education at KCL.
Dr Alice Clack - Sustainable Quality Improvement Education Fellow 2022-2023
Alice is a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who since CCST has worked in The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone as a specialist and educator, and with Chelsea and Westminster NHS trust and Betsi Cadwaladr NHS trust as a Locum Consultant. She will be supporting the CSH's SusQI Education project, which seeks to promote, and support the inclusion of SusQI into postgraduate and undergraduate clinical education. Alice has a background in climate activism, and is currently working with other Obstetricians and the RCOG to create a movement towards sustainable Obstetric care.