CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
must remember that our most valuable and truly unlimited resource is our capacity to imagine, to innovate and to educate.
Developing sustainability as both a focus and a method of training will help bring about meaningful, productive reform to en- sure healthy futures for all of us.
Route Map for a Sustainable NHS
On 1st February 2011 NHS Deputy Chief Executive David Flory launched a ‘Route Map’ for a sustainable healthcare system (pictured below), as reported in National Health Executive.
It was developed by the NHS Sustainable Development Unit in collaboration with over 70 organisations to guide the transition to a sustainable health system.
The route map is a framework within which everyone can identify their role in developing a sustainable health system. It is a collaborative, whole sector approach,
designed to
developed a ‘systems’ perspective to under- standing the links between the physiologi- cal systems that govern our bodies, the so- cial systems that infl uence our behaviours and practices and the environmental sys- tems and feedback loops in which all our human endeavours exist. This approach is being developed into CPD modules by the University of East Anglia and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Materials are
available for free download at sustainable-
healthcare.org.uk/sustainable-healthcare- education.
The Future of Training
The inherent tension in health between fi - nite resources - fi nancial, environmental, social - and infi nite need has forced the NHS to consider radical reforms. Yet we
encourage
discussion and debate but, more importantly, co-ordinated action. It is a way of ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction and also a series of milestones that outline the sort of things we need to do and the sort of timeframes we have to do them in.
But is not a step-by-step guide to a sustainable health system, it is not just for NHS or public sector organisations, and it is not set in stone; it will evolve over time to refl ect rapid shifts following key critical events in the future. It is not a strategic plan for any one organisation to deliver – it is for everyone. Finally, it is not the end of a journey – it is in fact the very fi rst step.
It can be used to identify which dimensions of the vision fi t with what you or your organisation are trying to achieve, and to understand who else is working towards the same part of the vision. Use it to discuss how you can collaborate or carve your strategic/ competitive
niche in delivering the
The NHS SDU ‘route map’ for sustainable healthcare (see box, right)
vision or milestones, and consider whether and how your business model or plan supports some of the key shifts required. Finally, join together and share your intelligence and expertise in taking this vision forward as part of the broad collaboration.
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