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Facilitator

Information and resources relevant to SAP facilitators, responsible for supporting clinical teams through the SAP programme.

Workshops

SAP uses two facilitated workshops to help staff learn about sustainable healthcare, identify their priorities and draw up an action plan.  Both workshops are designed to run over two hours.

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What are the key benefits of Sustainable Action Planning (SAP)?

SAP empowers clinical teams to take an active role in improving the environmental sustainability of healthcare.  Many healthcare organisations are now addressing the social and environmental impacts of their activities, but as yet have not found a way for clinical staff to contribute to this.  At the same time, many individuals working in healthcare are personally committed to sustain

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SAP resource efficiency tool 6: Collecting data

You need to record measurables in a way that will enable you to make use of the data in the next stages.  This table is to be copied if you wish, or you may find it easier to make a spreadsheet with these headings – see Tool 7.

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Resource Efficiency Tools
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Recording tool
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SAP information for team members

Why do sustainable action planning, what does the programme involve, and where to find out more.

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Getting Started
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Briefing
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SAP Evaluation Form 1

Use Evaluation Form 1 at the end of the second workshop to find out what the team has gained from SAP so far and how the process could be improved.

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Evaluation
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Questionnaire
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SAP resource efficiency tool 11: From cause to effect

This tool is designed to help you get to the bottom of things.  It can be used separately, or together with Tool 9 - The 5 ‘Why’s.

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Resource Efficiency Tools
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Activity
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SAP resource efficiency tool 4: Developing a process flow

A major hospital may have 360+ budget-holding departments, many of which are interlinked to produce a process.  For example if we follow a patient through an operation it may involve the ward, porters, reception area, anaesthetics, theatre, recovery, and return to ward.  Our purpose in doing a process flow is to highlight the activity as a carbon-using, carbon-wasting machine, to see

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Resource Efficiency Tools
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Activity
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SAP resource efficiency tool 18: Mistake-proofing by design

You can use design-thinking to detect and prevent errors in just about any service situation where an error can be made.

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Resource Efficiency Tools
Resource type: 
Briefing
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SAP resource efficiency tool 9: The 5 Whys

A classic "lean engineering" tool to get to the root causes of an issue.

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Resource Efficiency Tools
Resource type: 
Activity
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