Overview

We are proud to bring you this year’s national BOTA x ORUK Sustainability in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Virtual Conference, brought to you in collaboration between the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA) and Orthopaedic Research UK (ORUK).

The focus of this year’s event was on designing and implementing sustainability projects in surgery, and we had some fantastic speakers from Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) and the National Green Theatres Programme at the National Centre for Sustainable Delivery, who talked about their recent projects including the new GIRFT Greener pathways initiative, the Orthopaedic Green Toolkit and more.

Morning session:

Welcome and introduction by BOTA president- Mr Oliver Townsend

Orthopaedic Research UK: An overview- Dr Arash Angadiji

GIRFT Green pathways and GIRFT Green bladder cancer pathway- Mr Joseph John

GIRFT Green total hip replacement pathway- Mr Simon Lambracos

Dragons Den Presentations:

Metin Tolga Buldu, Petra Bonacic Bartolin, Luke Farrow and Meeran Hamawandi

Afternoon session:

National Green Theatre Programme: Setting the scene- Mr David Taggart

National Green Theatre Programme: Leaning surgical sets- developing a national approach- Ms Lydia Robb

National Green Theatre Programme: Highlights and horizons- Mr Steven Chawk

Lean trays audit- Ms Prakriti Shrestha

The WaSTE Study: A national audit of waste management in hip and knee arthroplasty- Mr Rohan Prakash