Education and Training
CSH offers a wide range of training courses to equip healthcare teams with the knowledge, confidence and practical tools to embed sustainable approaches in their practice; including making changes at an individual or team level, introducing sustainability to quality improvement processes, undertaking carbon footprint calculations, and take a leadership role on meeting Net Zero targets.
CSH courses are based on four principles of sustainable clinical practice: prevention, patient self-care, lean service delivery and low carbon alternatives. Our courses are focused on achieving lasting change and measurable impact at all levels of practice and leadership, through a combination of self-directed online learning modules, expert-facilitated workshops and peer discussion.
Sustainable Healthcare Courses
These are the core educational courses offered by CSH, providing an overview of the principles of sustainable healthcare (SHC), the challenges facing the healthcare system and relevant case studies. Course participants plan, implement and evaluate their own project to improve sustainability in their individual or team’s practice.
These courses are suitable for all healthcare professionals, including those with no pre-existing knowledge of SHC. It consists of a series of online learning modules with self-tests, followed by a facilitated workshop with small group discussions; ongoing support for participants’ projects is also available.
Multiple variants of the Sustainable Healthcare course are available to ensure maximum relevance and engagement, including primary care, dentistry, child health, kidney care, respiratory care, procurement and many more – as well as a broad-ranging cross-disciplinary course.
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Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI)
This course introduces the concept of ‘sustainable value’ and the SusQI framework, supporting the integration of sustainability into quality improvement practices.
This course is suitable for any healthcare professionals engaged with quality improvement. The course consists of an interactive online module, peer discussion forum and facilitated workshop; ongoing technical assistance and networking opportunities are also available.
Participants will be able to implement a ‘triple bottom line’ QI project in their workplace.
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Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare
This course introduces the concept of the carbon footprint at operational levels (service delivery, QI projects or procurement practices), the main carbon footprinting methodologies, how to calculate or estimate a carbon footprint, use carbon conversion factors and how to recognise good practice in carbon footprinting.
The course is suitable for any healthcare professionals seeking to calculate a carbon footprint or measure the quantitative impact of sustainability measures and the contribution to achieving Net Zero. It consists of an interactive online module, peer discussion forum and facilitated workshop; ongoing technical assistance and networking opportunities are also available.
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Teaching Sustainability in Quality Improvement
This short course supports the integration of sustainability concepts into mainstream quality improvement teaching and training. It is suitable for academics and clinical educators who have completed the SusQI course. It consists of a short online module and educator pack, followed by a facilitated workshop including small-group demonstration and exploration of SusQI teaching.
Participants will be able to integrate triple bottom line principles into their QI teaching.
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Net Zero Leadership training for Boards
This group workshop focuses on the expectations facing Board-level healthcare leaders in supporting the NHS Net Zero Plan, the unique characteristics and challenges of leadership for sustainability and how to inspire, lead and measure change.
The workshop is suitable for any senior leaders in NHS organisations, including Trusts and ICBs; it has relevance for clinical, estates, commercial and finance directors. It consists of a bespoke pre-reading pack based on your own context and strategic plans, followed by a two-hour workshop led by senior CSH facilitators.
Participating Boards will be able to refine and operationalise their Green/Net Zero plans and measure improvement using triple bottom line methods.
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