Project

Evidence-based Strategies to create Circular Hospitals: Applying the 10-Rs framework to healthcare (ESCH-R)

The NWA project ESCH-R provides knowledge and action perspectives that promote circularity in hospitals. We investigate the current material use practices on the hospital floor and aim to arrive at workable solutions for a circular hospital through co-creation with employees and other actors.

ESCH-R overview

The projects' overarching research question is: “How can hospitals move away from single-use medical consumables and make the transition towards circularity?” To answer this question, the project will apply a systemic transdisciplinary approach and collaborate with the whole hospital ecosystem (including hospitals, healthcare professional, patients, and suppliers).

The workpackage "How we Act", led by Bas van Vliet, will investigate current protocols and professional practices and develop strategies (or so-called interventions) towards circular practices involving the most impactful medical consumables used in three clinical departments in Utrecht and Rotterdam academic hospitals.

The aim is to remove current barriers, adopt (newly developed) practices , and facilitate a behavioural change of healthcare professionals towards a circular way of working.

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