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
Each area of activity must be analysed so its impacts on the planet can be seen. The illustration below shows an operating theatre. The first step is to identify what goes in and what comes out.
Use this guide to get top management commitment to your whole programme, or for specific actions you have identified and need their to support to push through.
In all walks of life we have euphemisms for waste and wasting, preferring to call it almost anything else. See if the team can add to our list of euphemisms.
