Greener NHS Week 2024

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Greener NHS Week 2024

The London Greener NHS team are excited to host Greener NHS Week from Monday 13 May 2024 to Friday 17 May 2024, a week dedicated to gain understanding of the NHS sustainability agenda, meet sustainability experts and celebrate successes in London and net zero achievements. All events will be run virtually.


Sessions

Greener NHS Week 2024 Monday 13 May (full day)

10am, Monday 13 May 2024

London Green Week Event - Monday 13 May 2024 | NHS England Events

Agenda (subject to changes)

9-9.45am – Welcome to the London Greener NHS Week
Chris Gormley, Acting Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England
Martin Machray, Director – London GNHS, Improvement, Transformation and Partnerships

10-10.45am – Climate activism: What health professionals can do
Amelia Cussans, Psychiatry Registrar, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Climate Justice advocate

11-11.45am – The impact of climate change on pregnant women and the outpatient hypertension pathway
Angela Willis, Chief Sustainability Officer’s Fellow 2023/24

12-12.45pm – Implementing Sustainable Clinical Practice in Surgical Fields
Zahra Shehabi, Consultant Dentist; Sustainability Clinical Fellow

2-2.45pm – Understanding the sustainability impact of Oral Nutritional Supplements
Rebecca Fisher, AHP Prescribing Advisor

3-3.45pm – Engaging staff / Launching our Green Champions Programme
Gareth Thompson, Sustainability Clinical & Innovation Lead

4-4.45pm – SMART theatres 
David Roskams, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

 

Greener NHS Week 2024 Tuesday 14 May (full day)

10am, Tuesday 14 May 2024

London Green Week Event - Tuesday 14 May 2024 | NHS England Events

Agenda (subject to changes)

9-9.45am – Making Greener Conversation
Stella Vig, NHS National Clinical Director for Elective Care

10-10.45am – Sustainable transport and active travel in NW London
Tom Wright, Director of Sustainability (Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and West London)

11-11.45am – Reducing the environmental impact of treating kidney disease
Shazia Adalat, Consultant Paediatrician and Chair of Evelina London Children's Hospital Sustainability group; Paediatric representative on The UK Kidney Association Sustainable Kidney Care Committee

12-12.45pm – Overcoming the climate crisis with environmentally sustainable primary care
Matthew Sawyer, Environmental Sustainability Consultant and ex-GP

1-1.45pm – Horticultural Therapy at the Homerton
Emma Myers, Horticultural Therapist, Homerton NHS Trust
Lucie Dinsmore, Fundraising Officer, Homerton NHS Trust

2-2.45pm – Walking Aid London Project
Simon Rowland, Sustainability Manager - NHS London Procurement Partnership

3-3.45pm – A nature positive NHS for climate and health
Sarah Jordan, Green Space for Health Director, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

4-4.45pm – Nature alone Cues’ Planetary Health a Nursing and Midwifery Imperative 
Rodney Morton, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer England at NHS England  
Emma Blakey, Clinical Lead Sustainability Nursing Directorate NHS England 
Rosa Montero, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

 

Greener NHS Week 2024 Wednesday 15 May (full day)

10am, Wednesday 15 May 2024

London Green Week Event - Wednesday 15 May 2024 | NHS England Events

Agenda (subject to changes)

9-9.45am – Sustainability Hybrid Nurse role in Intensive Care Unit
Stephanie Ireland, Staff Nurse and Sustainability Champion in Adult Intensive Care Unit; Clinical Lead for Sustainability Development Group at Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield

10-10.45am – Sustainability in Procurement
Simon Rowland, Sustainability Manager - NHS London Procurement Partnership

11-11.45am – Eat Like a Londoner - Sustainable diet and food waste Pan London campaign
Ander Zabala, Sustainability and Climate Service Group Manager

12-12.45pm – Food waste management in acute hospitals, results from a waste measurement trial
Andrew Jackson, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; King’sCollege Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

1-1.45pm – The mental health and neurocognitive impact of climate change
Shazia Adalat, Consultant Paediatrician and Chair of Evelina London Children's Hospital Sustainability group, Paediatric representative on The UK Kidney Association Sustainable Kidney Care Committee

2-2.45pm – Greener inhaler prescribing in Children & Young People
Sukeshi Makhecha, Paediatric Respiratory Pharmacist, Royal Brompton & Evelina Hospitals

3-3.45pm – A health system perspective on climate resilience
Emer O'Connell, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority Public Health Unit

4-4.45pm – Using Open Prescribing to audit your greener prescribing.
Brian MacKenna, Pharmacist, Director of NHS Service Analytics at the Bennett Institute

 

Greener NHS Week 2024 Thursday 16 May (full day)

10am, Thursday 16 May 2024

London Green Week Event - Thursday 16 May 2024 | NHS England Events

Agenda (subject to changes)

9-9.45am – North East London Climate Literacy Programme
Rebecca Waters, Health Improvement and Inclusion Manager, North East London Integrated Care Board

10-10.45am – Workforce development for a Greener NHS
Peter May, Net Zero Policy and Delivery Manager, Greener NHS

11-11.45am – Period Health and the triple bottom line
Jacqueline Gordon, Chief Sustainability Officer’s Fellow 2023/24

12-12.45pm – Rebecca Griffiths, Net zero and sustainability senior manager, NHS England 

1-1.45pm – Greener Practice – What can GPs and GP trainees do?
Veena Aggarwal, GP Registrar; RCGP National Sustainability Group - Vice Chair; RCGP South London sustainability board lead; Co-chair Greener Practice South London and Greener Practice Trainee Forum. Chief Sustainability Officer’s Fellow 2021/22

2-2.45pm – Waste reduction of nitrous oxide gases
Laura Stevenson, Associate Chief Pharmacist – Aseptic Services,
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

3-3.45pm – South East London Inhaler Recycling Project
Aimee Mutambo, Pharmacist, South East London Integrated Care Board

4-4.45pm – Sustainable respiratory prescribing in primary care
Maeve Savage, Highly Specialist Pharmacist, COPD and Integrated Respiratory Care, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Alicia Piwko, Highly Specialist Pharmacist, Asthma, COPD and Integrated Respiratory Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

Greener NHS Week 2024 Friday 17 May (full day)

10am, Friday 17 May 2024

London Green Week Event - Friday 17 May 2024 | NHS England Events

Agenda (subject to changes)

9-9.45am – Green Surgery Checklist
Speaker TBC

10-10.45am – Developing a net zero roadmap for primary care in London
James Bate, Senior Sustainability Consultant – Turner & Townsen

11-11.45am – Device recycling and gifting pilot scheme to facilitate sustainable, ‘out-of-hospital’ digital care pathways
Swan Kang, Consultant Ophthalmologist in Adnexal and Digital Medicine

12-12.45pm – Digital Net Zero 
Ben Tongue, Digital Net Zero Lead in NHS England 

1-1.45pm – London Air Quality and Health Programme Office
Julie Billett and Karen Exley

2-2.45pm – Travel and Transport
Paul Chandler, National Net Zero Travel and Transport Lead