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um So, um, my name's Muga. I do want I mean, the nieces at the Little University Hospital. Trust on going to be talking to you about our journey in switching over to reusable theater caps. As I'm sure most of you are aware in the theater environment, stuff are required to where caps as part of their theater. A tire on In most units across the country, disposable single use caps are used a spur local policy. Now this has a significant negative impact on the environment of the details of which are going to was going to see next you slide. But I can't see them. But I do know the figures. It is important to note that in a hospital with a Navratil 20 operating theaters, more than 100,000 caps are used annually on most of these, end up in landfill sites or are incinerated now. So I, um, thought of this project in 2019. So I dealt into the actual manufacturing process off reusable, not reusable. Sorry. Disposable caps on found that they are detrimental to the environment. The reason being well, a couple of reasons is the natural constitute off disposable caps is viscous, which is derived from would. Hence in producing disposable single use caps, natural forests are depleted. I'm sure all of you are where are aware. 15 billion trees are cut down annually globally. On the environmental, researchers have stated that the percentage reduction in trees since the start of human civilization is 46%. So basically, we've always wiped out 50% of our tree population. So then I started looking at the reusable caps remaining infection control point of view because I thought I have to get the infection control department on my side. So I looked up on the use of usable cuts on B studies that have been done on them and found quite a few. And basically what they've said is the there is no incident. Increase off surgical site infections with the use off reusable caps on Hoskin on colleagues, what was the first off? It's kind of study off first of its kind to look for a direct association between the type of surgical cap use on um, surgical site infections, and there was no incidence of increase on. In fact, what they said is the bouffant disposable caps have been associated with greater permeability. Greater microbial contamination. Ah, greater particulate contamination we've been involved in livable with In a very small pilot study in collaboration with Birmingham, a research unit in Birmingham, they found that the number off microbes or the microbial count on the unused disposable caps do too dirty fingers. Touching the caps from the when you're taking them out of the box is higher than on fabric caps. So I spoke to infect the infection control department and they gave me the go ahead straight away. I'm really fortunate that the hospital I work in has an infection control department which is progressive and supportive. So I got the thumbs up from them straight away. I then I got in touch with procurement on got figures for our annual expenditure on disposable caps and found that are trust that is, the royal improved mean That's a two side hospital. At the time that we have merge was spending more than 25,000 lbs annually on disposable cups. So I took this to management and this was to was the end of 2019 on, then 2020 over it happened and everything was put on the back burner in September. Off 2020. My clinical director at the time put me in touch with Danielle. Tickets would be, if she's done a a lecture earlier today on the evolution of fit a tire on. We had long discussions on design styling, getting rid of latex allergies, allergy, rubber, sorry, in the disposable caps that is there in the real to be designed in the reusable ones because there's a small percentage of patients that do present with latex allergy. And then I took all these figures unfatty to management yet again. On it was a question of going back and forth with management. And finally, in May off of the February of 2021 I got the go ahead for Theoneste Attic Consultants to have reusable caps on 6 to 8 weeks later, I got the go ahead for for it to be rolled up to all the permanent stuff members. Now the thing is, it always boils down to money, so I would the are management would be spending something like 21,000 lbs for all our permanent stuff members to get reusable caps on. We spent annually 25,000 lbs on the disposable ones, so there's always there's already a saving there. Therefore, the projected three year saving is more than 50,000 lbs on. Since the introduction off reusable camps, we've had a lot of positive feedback. Communication has improved. It's well known according to the wh oh, safety in surgery standards that 70% off adverse events in the healthcare system ball down to miscommunication. So communication has improved this important patient safety factors that is a positive. It's important for team building. Team working creates a sense of a unified workforce on all these positive factors sort of supersede the inconvenience of personal laundering. So they fought. In conclusion. I want to say that Little University Hospital has implementing news. Will Caps has brought about a positive environmental change using less carbon intensive reusable cups. Thank you. I would have shown you a picture on my team, which is on my slides. But hopefully one of the techs stuff will be able to get the slides across to you guys later. Thank you. I think I think you've already seen it. We've introduced the color coding system so that on the corridor from the color of the calf. You are able to identify exactly who that what role that person performs because it's a some. Sure, you're where it's complex environment. Lots of people performing different rolls on for patients as well. Because they interact with so many people. The immediately know who they're interacting with. That helps to a lady Patient anxiety. Thank you so much. Thank you for that. I'm glad you're able to do it right. I think we're not going to move on to the carpet. Allergic to So we'll let you go. Thank you. Thank you.