RESOURCES
Here you will find all the resources you need to carry out a SusQI project.
Please see our
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Licensing page to find out how to credit CSH when using our resources.
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Evidence page if you would like to read more read more about the evidence base for SusQI, including case studies, evaluations and publications.
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SusQI Course if you would to receive training and support on the SusQI approach.
Project Planning
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Project Development Template: This will help you get started on a project. It provides guiding questions to get you thinking and pointers of where to use the tools above for each stage of your process
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Project Planner: This document provides a framework for recording your steps in the SusQI Process as you develop your project
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Setting Goals Template: This document can be used to help you set your goals
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Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in SusQI: PPI strengthens improvement work by ensuring what is of value to patients and the public is at the heart of improvement. This document has been developed to support those using SusQI methodology to involve patients and the public in SusQI projects from design (including setting outcomes) and implementation to evaluation.
Study the System
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Value process mapping overview To help you to design your own value process map. Examples from various clinical settings:
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outpatients example
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sexual health services example
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unilateral tinnitus example
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Scanning for Waste Table: Identify the types of waste which might be occurring in your department or system.
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Recognising Resource Use Table: Identify waste hotspots that could be the target for your improvement idea
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Scanning for Social Impact Table: Identify the negative and positive social impacts on different groups of your current system and your proposed intervention idea.
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Scanning for Social Determinants Table: Identify the socially-determined roots causes for a problem, that might enable you to target interventions to prevent these problems occurring.
Design Your Improvement
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Driver Diagram template: This diver diagram is blank for your use and can be filled in to help you think about potential change ideas in your setting
Examples of Driver Diagrams in various clinical settings:
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Driver Diagram: anaesthetics
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Driver Diagram: renal services
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Driver Diagram: diabetes services
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Driver Diagram: ICU
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Prioritising Improvement Ideas Table: Use this table to support you in considering the potential Health, Environmental and Social Impacts of your change ideas, as well as their feasibility
Measure the Impact
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Environmental outcomes: carbon footprinting for healthcare This document will show you how to work out a carbon footprint of a service, system or pathway using updated greenhouse gas emission factors
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Note: The Scanning for Social Impacts table from the Study the System section above can be used after designing or implementing your intervention. This will help you to understand if you have have had an overall increase or decrease in negative social impacts and for which group.
Reporting Templates
Once you have completed your report, please share your project by uploading it to our Sustainable Healthcare Resource Library. Please note, you will need to register with the free Networks before you can upload.
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SusQI case study report template: Use this template if you have followed SusQI methodology for your project.
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Poster Template: This provides a structure for presenting your project at a conference or meeting
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Educational Case Study Template: Share your experience of teaching SusQI in your institution using this template