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- Understand the concept of ‘sustainability’ and how this applies to the NHS and to the wider health care system, including:
- disease prevention and health promotion
- patient education and empowerment
- professional education and skill development
- service improvement principles, e.g. lean service delivery and cost reduction, savings and quality improvement
- new service delivery models, upskilling and role of new technology
- Understand how sustainable models translate to the hospital and community eye health care setting.
- Understand the ‘carbon footprint’ of delivering health care and ways in which this can be reduced e.g. use of AI, digital technologies.
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