Two of Yorkshire’s integrated care systems, the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership and West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthcare Partnership, are hosting Climate Lunch and Learn events, a series of hour-long sessions to address the challenges we face with Climate Change and the impact this will have on our healthcare system as well as the population we serve. The sessions take place on alternate Fridays and are hosted on Microsoft Teams.

This series of talks will look at climate change, anaesthetic gases, meter dose inhalers, floods and climate adaptation, health inequalities, food and the impact of diet, PPE, procurement, biodiversity as well the impact on mental health, digital, waste and travel. We will explore the impact that healthcare has across the world and the impact that climate change will have on healthcare into the future.

The fifth session looks at Innovation. Reinventing, reshaping and eliminating technologies that aren’t fit for the future.

Session five: Innovating in the NHS

Friday 23rd July 2021, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Hosted by: Alexis Percival and Frank Swinton, Net Zero Leads for Climate Change at the Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership and West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership respectively.

Additional speakers: Pete Waddingham, Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network

Innovation will be a key part of how we can battle our way out of the climate crisis. We need to reinvent, reshape and eliminate technologies that aren’t fit for the future. We need to also assess the way in which we work now to design and innovate a new health system for the future.

Pete Waddingham from the Yorkshire and Humber AHSN will take us through some of the new technologies that are coming to market that can be used in a health care setting and those that we need to reassess for a different future.

The chairs will invite questions at the end of the session. We would encourage you to join us live so that you can delve into the challenges we face and get involved in the session.