General Principles

Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) So how do we incorporate sustainability into hospitals? This is where the concept of SusQI (Sustainability in Quality Improvement) comes in. We already have a quality improvement process for many other aspects of patient care: safety, efficiency etc. The hospital is constantly performing audits and identifying areas that we could…

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE If you don’t know the waste hierarchy, this is arguably the most important concept to be aware of. The concept is very simple. It’s ranked in the order of importance of waste management. (things like recover and treat is not relevant to most households) People always talk about – oh we don’t…