Exploring the sustainable impacts of a clinical healthcare research scholarship programme.

Background: The NHS is the first public body globally to commit to net zero.

Aim: This study aimed to explore the environmental sustainability impact of a hospital scholarship programme.

Method: A sustainable quality improvement value framework was used to measure the programme's environmental, social and financial effects.

"Concrete ways we can make a difference": A multi-centre, multi-professional evaluation of sustainability in quality improvement education.

Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit that links concepts of sustainable healthcare with established quality improvement methodologies (the SusQI approach, available at www.susqi.

Midwifery research in areas of deprivation and need: the MeRIDiAN project.

Background: Areas with high levels of deprivation often have the lowest numbers of research participation. In January 2020, a maternity research service was established at a UK National Health Service (NHS) Trust incorporating a project monitoring equity of access to pregnant people from areas of deprivation and need.

Aims: The aim is to monitor maternity research opportunities for pregnant people in areas of deprivation and need.