Speakers
Professor Hugh Montgomery
Professor Mahmood Bhutta
Professor Jennie Wilson
Dr Tom Dawson
Dr Heather Baid
Stream 3
We all want to prevent the spread of infection. But how much of what we do might be unnecessary and, worse, harmful to budgets, people and planet? Why are bronchoscopes and laryngoscopes so often 'disposable'? Could drapes be washed and reused- or are they, in some cases, even needed at all? What else do we accept to be true, which might not be? How much money and plastic waste could be safely saved if we changed practice? Our panel of experts will tell us!
Prof Jennie Wilson, ex-president of the UK Society for Infection Prevention and Control and James Dalton (sustainability lead there) will give us their views.
Prof Tom Dawson co-authored a report- launched today- on reusable textiles in healthcare and will present its findings.
Prof Mahmood Bhutta will bust the myths around the 'disposable culture'
Dr Heather Baid, sustainability lead for the ICS, co-authored the 'ICU Sustainability Recipe Book', and will tell us about its contents, and how we can all be clean and green.
Professor Mahmood Bhutta is a consultant ENT surgeon with over 20 years of experience, based at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove and BMI Goring Hall Hospital, Worthing. He specialises in hearing loss, ear discharge, tinnitus. dizziness, hearing implants and cholesteatoma. He is an expert in treating conditions like glue ear, holes in the eardrum, and earwax buildup, as well as otology (disease of the ear), which he studied in order to gain his Doctor of Philosophy qualification from the University of Oxford. Professor Bhutta is a consultant to the World Health Organisation on the prevention of deafness and hearing loss.
In 2006 Mahmood founded the Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (hosted at the British Medical Association) in response to labour rights abuses in the manufacture of medical products, including surgical instruments, gloves and textiles. He works with the NHS, and international procurement organisations and NGOs, to foster better working conditions in healthcare supply chains
Areas of research: Environmental sustainability in healthcare systems; labour rights in healthcare supply chains; ear and hearing care.
Area of expertise: Sustainable healthcare, health systems, ear and hearing disorders
Jennie is an RGN, has a BSc in microbiology, MSc in public health and a PhD and has worked in infection prevention and control (IPC) for 40 years. She has previously worked as an IPC specialist in large acute NHS Trusts and epidemiologist at Public Health England and is currently a professor at the University of West London where she is working on a range of research areas including the misuse and overuse of gloves and the role of IPC during SAR-COV-2. Jennie has been a lead author on systematic evidence reviews that underpin national guidelines on preventing healthcare associated infections, a past President of the Infection Prevention Society and associate editor of the Journal of Infection Prevention.
Dr Tom Dawson is the founder and CEO of Revolution-ZERO, a net zero, circular economy focused medical textiles certified B-Corp. He has over 30 years of life and physical sciences experience delivering solutions for government, industry and third sector organisations. He holds a doctorate in physiology, anatomy and genetics (University of Oxford); degrees in medicine (Otago) and biochemistry (Otago); and multiple post-graduate qualifications. He is a visiting Research Fellow in Circular Health Economics at the University of Exeter. He has published 15 biotechnology patents and as a serial entrepreneur most recently exited Rescon Technologies a healthcare focused wearable and information technology company.
James is an ST5 resident in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine. After developing an interest in sustainable healthcare, he worked with UH Sussex NHS Foundation Trust to decommission their nitrous oxide manifolds as a sustainable healthcare fellow. He has been undertaking research with Brighton & Sussex Medical School to investigate the utility of novel lower carbon decontamination techniques to enable a scalable circular economy of airway devices in the NHS.