Revolution-ZERO Orthopaedics

We have been working with Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust on displacing single use medical textiles in orthopaedic operating theatres with customised, reusable and circular economy Revolution-ZERO alternatives

Challenges

With decades of reliance on the single-use model within the NHS and health systems globally there are product, infrastructure, logistics, procurement, culture and workflow challenges. 

As a total system enabler Revolution-ZERO has been working with the Royal Cornwall Hospitals, Royal Devon Universities, Sandwell and West Birmingham, Cardiff and Vale and Highland NHS Trusts and Boards along with the University of Exeter, University College London and Anze Ltd to address the challenges.  

To do this we have been developing the systems and demonstrating the feasibility of replacing single-use textiles in a large joint operation.  Following this work we plan to deliver a larger scale rollout over four orthopaedic operating theatres utilising our ZERO-DECON integrated and net zero focused decontamination and sterilisation hubs.

Revolution-ZERO in partnership with NHS stakeholders are developing reusable medical textile solutions which are more effective, economic and environmentally sustainable that their single-use counterparts.  Our work is focused on empowering the NHS and other health systems to have increased control over supply chain, quality, cost and environmental impact of medical textiles.