Environmental Sustainability within the NHS

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Our way of life, including the provision of healthcare, is harming the planetary life support systems that we rely on. Radical change is needed. We will increasingly need to adapt to managing physical and mental illnesses caused by ecological degradation while also reducing our environmental footprint. During this event, we will explore ways in which we can address these dilemmas.

Mike Tomson
Mike is a clinically retired GP, active in Greener Practice nationally and in Sheffield. He's a member of the RCGP’s Climate Emergency Action Group and is an associate with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. He is working on a chapter on planetary health in the RCGP curriculum and has been creating online resources for GP trainees to learn about climate change for HEE Yorkshire and Humber. Mike will be chairing the event.

Aarti Bansal
Aarti is a GP in Sheffield, a clinical academic and the founder of Greener Practice. She has worked in medical education since 2009 and her focus, both in terms of curriculum development and research, has been to support a person-centred approach to clinical practice. Aarti founded the Greener Practice initiative in 2017 and has led this initiative from a small local group to a thriving national community of health practitioners actively supporting primary care towards sustainable healthcare. Greener Practice has set up a website (http://www.greenerpractice.co.uk) and twitter (@greenerpractice) platform for information sharing. She co-wrote the Climate Emergency motion passed at the September 2019 RCGP Council meeting. Aarti currently co-chairs the RCGP Climate Emergency Advisory Group with Terry Kemple. The group advises the RCGP on its climate action plan. Aarti is a nationally-elected RCGP Council member.

Richard Smith
Having practiced as a doctor in Scotland and New Zealand, Richard Smith joined the BMJ in 1979 and was editor-in-chief and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group from 1991-2004. He is the chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. From 2012 to 2018 he was the chair of icddr,b [formerly International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh]. He is an adjunct professor at Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation and a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. As a regular contributor of blogs for the BMJ, he is an outspoken voice on climate change as well as end of life care, public health, scientific publishing, and global health.

Alexis Percival
Alexis is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service. She has worked within the NHS for 12 years raising the awareness of the carbon emissions from the healthcare sector. She has been working to slash the carbon footprint of the ambulance service through innovative technologies. Yorkshire Ambulance Trust is the first ambulance service in the world to introduce hydrogen-electric vans into its fleet and has 109 ambulances with roof solar panels. She leads the Green Environmental Ambulance Network (GrEAN) and Leeds Anchors Sustainability Taskforce (for healthcare organisations) and works closely with the Leeds Plastics Network. She sits on the Leeds Climate Commission working to help Leeds drive down carbon emissions and is a commissioner for the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission. She is also on the committee for the Roundhay Environmental Action Project (REAP) based in Leeds. She launched the #NHSClimateEmergency in response to the climate crisis and works closely with the Health Declares a Climate and Ecological Emergency network.

Nathan Hudson-Peacock
Nathan is a junior doctor who ran a sustainability quality improvement project (QIP) while he was working at UCLH Intensive Care during the first wave of COVID-19. Following on from the success of this QIP, he went on to found Eco Medics, a non-profit organisation aiming to tackle sustainability within the healthcare system. By engaging, educating and inspiring healthcare professionals, Eco Medics is building a network of individuals who can implement tried-and-tested projects in their local departments and who can be advocates on the ground for sustainable healthcare. The intention is to inspire individual action and to drive institutional changes that place the health of our planet alongside the health of its patients.

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