Your SusQI journey starts here

This step-by-step guide will take you through the stages of a SusQI project. These steps can be incorporated into existing QI models. 

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STEP 1:
SET GOALS

Set sustainable goals for your quality improvement project, within the overarching goal to deliver maximum health gain with minimum financial cost and harmful environmental impacts, whilst adding social value at every opportunity.

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STEP 2:
STUDY THE SYSTEM

Recognise the use of environmental and social resources in your current service, and identify opportunities to improve.

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STEP 3:
DESIGN IMPROVEMENT

Design your project using sustainability principles (prevention, empowerment, lean pathways, low carbon alternatives) to achieve the greatest benefit.

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STEP4:
MEASURE IMPACT

Measure the impact of your project on sustainable value. This includes tools for measuring social value and calculating carbon footprint.

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Our Project Development Template may help you to get started on your project.

When ready to share your project, you may wish to use our Reporting Templates.

 

This "SusQI Explained video" will give you an overview of the 4 steps of the SusQI framework, as well as an introduction to sustainability in healthcare and examples of SusQI in action in the NHS.