Realistic Medicine 2024: Designing Realistic Journeys

Description

The focus of the conference was on developing realistic journeys where we can make meaningful connections and deliver careful and kind care.

Title:
Designing a toolkit to make healthcare environmentally sustainable

Outline of session:
Design HOPES is a research project that utilises the potential of design-led thinking and making to innovate and tackle complex healthcare challenges to meet urgent environmental goals for a sustainable health and social care systems.

Recognising that health professionals are the stewards of the NHS resources, one project within the programme – The Green Ward Toolkit – aims to understand and develop innovative and design-led tools to enable secondary care teams to rapidly reduce the environmental impact of healthcare.

Within this workshop we explored sustainable themes pertinent to the delivery of healthcare through a design approach, share experiences of improving sustainable practices to help shape the development of the Green Ward toolkit.

Period	20 Nov 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Dundee, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local