
The Green Team Competition is an award-winning programme in sustainable healthcare that transforms expert knowledge into action. It empowers NHS and healthcare organisations to bring sustainability and healthcare together, to improve clinical outcomes, reduce organisational costs and become thought leaders in their journey toward net zero.
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Cut Carbon to meet Net Zero targets
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Improve staff well-being
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Reduce Costs and Save Money.
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Improve Patient Care.

“The Green Team competition is a great way of picking up new skills and learning how to make bigger reductions in your carbon footprint… SusQI is a great way of team building and putting a spring in the step of the people we work with and give treatment to”.
Mark Wright, July 2022,
Consultant Nephrologist and Haemodialysis Lead
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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The Green Team Competition offers both bigger picture understanding and guides practical changes in sustainable healthcare – transforming knowledge into action.
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As a healthcare worker, you can directly influence, implement and measure changes in your daily practice, showing tangible benefits to net zero carbon, cost and care.
As an organisation, you can empower your staff with the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to sustainable models of care, whilst receiving an impressive return on investment.
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I am a healthcare worker / clinician who would like my organisation to host a green team competition
I am interested in commissioning a competition in my setting. I am a member of Quality Improvement, Sustainability, Estates, Procurement or Strategy teams

Competitions offer a range of social benefits for
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Patients such as..
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Improved experience through care pathways
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Less unnecessary/low value, invasive or uncomfortable procedures
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Addressing patient and public concerns of climate change
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Increased awareness of links between environment and their health
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Staff such as..
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Improved efficiency
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Time gained back for higher value work
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Aligning personal values with work practices
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Professional development opportunites
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Boosting staff morale
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Increased motivation for QI
How it works
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The Green Team Competition invites six teams from within your healthcare delivery organisation to engage in our mentoring programme and begin their journey toward improving Sustainability in Quality Improvement, 'SusQI', through a variety of projects.
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Your teams will be led by experienced experts in healthcare, education and sustainability to increase understanding, implement positive change, and introduce a series of closely mentored practical projects that will generate high impact outcomes.
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All outcomes will be tracked and evidenced to document the positive impact on the environment, patient care and organisational costs, and each team will present their project in a ceremony designed to celebrate everyone's achievements.

Our Success Stories
Organisations who have participated in the Green Team Competition since 2019 are detailed on the map below. Please click on an organisation for links to their Impact Reports.
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2023 Green Team organisations will be added soon!
Case Study Spotlight
For more Green Team case studies, please see our Resource Library.
Our Recent Awards​
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Winners in the 2018, 2019 and 2022 NHS Sustainability Partnerships Awards. The most recent winner was The Infection Prevention Control team from Northamptonshire in the Staff Engagement Category
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Two Green Team ePosters were presented at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Copenhagen 2023.
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Two participating teams have been shortlisted for the 2023 HSJ Towards Net Zero Award.
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Two Green Team project leads, Alex Langstaff and Holly Slyne, are finalists in the Greener Nursing Category in the Royal College of Nursing Awards 2023
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Several Green Team projects have been accepted for poster presentations at the BMJ Net Zero Clinical Care Conference 2023. Project Lead Lynn Riddell will be presenting their project on reducing low value appointments. The CSH SusQI team will also be presenting.
I am a healthcare worker / clinician who would like my organisation to host a green team competition
I am interested in commissioning a competition in my setting. I am a member of Quality Improvement, Sustainability, Estates, Procurement or Strategy teams
Contact us
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Rachel McLean, Green Team Programme Lead
Please contact me for further information or to schedule a 30 minute Teams call.