The Transplant Sustainability Network is open to anyone interested in making transplantation more sustainable.
Our Vision
Enabling an environmentally sustainable future for transplant services in the UK.
Our Mission
Providing the UK transplant community with the data, training, resources, strategies and tools to improve environmental sustainability in their service delivery, and to increase the priority of environmental sustainability in UK transplantation as a whole.
How We Started
The network is linked to Environmental Sustainability in Transplantation (ESIT), focused on establishing and nurturing a network of environmental sustainability focused transplant colleagues, whilst also providing guidance and leadership at a national level, to facilitate improvement in sustainable practice in transplant services. Our members volunteer their time out of concern for the future and to help shape a sustainable transplant future. ESIT is comprised of transplant professionals from across the UK, across the multidisciplinary team, and across the entire pathway from organ donation to post-transplant care.
The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Working Group on Environmental Sustainability in Transplantation was formally convened in March 2023 by Prof. Derek Manas (Medical Director for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation) with Dr Matt Welberry-Smith (Consultant Transplant Physician, Leeds) and Mr John Callaghan (Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Oxford & Coventry) as co-chairs. The group has now evolved into ESIT.
Network Goals
Network Co-leads
Laura Barton, Carrie Scuffell, Matt Welberry-Smith, Rosa Montero, John O-Callaghan
Key Resources
ESIT homepage - https://www.odt.nhs.uk/transplantation/making-transplantation-green/
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