Meet our clinical sustainability fellows
This Clean Air Day, meet our sustainability clinical fellows and learn how they are making Barts Health a greener Trust:
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Zahra is the sustainability clinical fellow for Dentistry and joined Green at Barts Health, focussing on making dentistry more sustainable. In January, Kenworthy Road Dental Clinic was officially opened, a student run service offering free dental care in north east London. Zahra worked with the construction team during the building of the clinic to ensure sustainable features were included in the infrastructure, such as LED lighting, rain water harvesting for the toilets, a heat recovery system, in house decontamination and secure cycle racks.
Zahra’s leads on a project called 'Envirodent', a multi-faceted improvement initiative to make environmentally friendly changes to dentistry, having already proven effective, saving in cost and carbon emissions, these initiatives include:
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Jonny is a paediatric anaesthetic consultant at The Royal London Hospital and has worked on sustainable healthcare related projects for roughly 10 years. He has set up greener theatre groups to encourage hospital theatres to function more sustainably.
Some of his work looks at reducing the amount of energy used in theatres. Having found that theatres are the most energy intensive areas of the hospital, Jonny created a ‘shut down’ checklist to avoid the use of energy in theatres out of hours.
He has also been working on a national research project looking how we can reduce our energy use from theatre ventilation (how we clean our air in theatres) whilst analysing the risks of doing so to ensure this can be done without compromising patient safety and care. This project will be rolled out across the Trust this year leading significant energy reductions.
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Puja is a healthcare support worker at the Intensive Care Unit at Newham Hospital. She also acts as the hospital’s clinicalsustainability fellow. She has a Masters in environmental sciences and is an associate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (AIEMA).
Her current project is focussing on reducing the amount of plastic waste that is generated within all intensive care units across our hospitals, and ensuring that all plastic waste is being recycled through the trust’s new waste management contract, which has brought new dry mixed recycling bins across our sites. |
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Natasha is a consultant anaesthetist and sustainability clinical fellow for Whipps Cross Hospital and co-chair of Green at Barts Health.
Her current projects involve working with stakeholders to find solutions to reducing the level of anaesthetic gases that are used in areas such as theatres and maternity and moving the Trust to reusable theatre gowns and hats.
Recently, Natasha worked on project that secured funding for new technology that is able to capture anaesthetic gasses that is breathed out by patients who are under general anaesthesia, so that it can be extracted and reused. This is currently being piloted in theatres as part of Whipps Cross redevelopment.
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