09:00 – 09:45 Introduction to Northern Greener Week

Chris Gormley – Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS England

Louise Shepherd – Regional Director, North West NHS England

10:00 – 10:45 Gloves off campaign

Speaker TBC

11:00 – 11:45 4 Steps Forward – empowering HCPs to have conversations about being active with patients, empowering clinicians with the PACC program

Dr Jo Maher, GP/ Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC)

BREAK

13:00 – 13:45 Making Emergency Care Sustainable

Dr James Walton, Consultant in Emergency Medicine

14:00 – 14:45 NetZero Compliance, Accountability Reporting and sustainability assurance in the NHS

Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation & Planning

Dr. Olu Akinremi, Senior Transformation Programme Lead 

Keith Moore, Programme Director

15:00 – 15:45 Use Me First Project (Waste Reduction)

Eleanor Lea, Head of Nursing Medicines Optimisation & Stephanie Williamson, Lead Nurse for Tissue Viability 

16:00 – 16:45 Greener in Primary Care

Dr Matt Sawyer, Environmental Sustainability Consultant in Healthcare

9:00 – 09:45 Smart Prescribing, Sustainable Care: The MIBARB Review Revolution

Dr Victoria Cox Higher Specialty Trainee in Palliative Medicine and General Internal Medicine

Dr Samuel Fingas – Palliative Medicine Consultant

Dr Mike Tomson – GP (clinically retired), medical educator and coach, Trustee for Centre for Sustainable Healthcare at STH

10:00 – 10:45 Reducing the use of disposable insulin pens in North East & Yorkshire

Dr Jackie Elliott, Clinical Lead for Diabetes Senior Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Honorary Consultant

Christopher Ranson, Senior Medicines Management Pharmacist, Humber and North Yorkshire ICB

RECLAIM- reuse equipment and consumables for learning in advanced medical education

Speaker TBC

11:00 – 11:45 Low Carbon Food and Catering in the NHS: Using Nudge Theory to Drive Change

Mandy Davies Consultant Dietitian and Net Zero Lead for Nutrition & Hydration

Tim Radcliffe, Net Zero Food Programme Manager, NHS England

12:00 – 12:45 Heat decarbonisation at North Tyneside General Hospital

Dr Clare Winter, Head of Sustainability, Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT

13:00 – 13:45 Retrofitting Homes for Better Health

Grace Ridler, Sustainability Manager, NHS Greater Manchester

Anees Mank, Programme and Policy Lead (Retrofit), Environment Directorate. GMCA

Aligning the health and environmental co-benefits of retrofitting UK buildings

Dr Douglas Booker, Lecturer in Indoors Air

14:00 – 14:45 Developing eco-ethical leaders for a Greener NHS

Dr Rammina Yassaie Medical Doctor, Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Health and Social Care

15:00 – 15:45 Born Green Generation : Delivering healthcare free from unnecessary plastics and toxic chemicals; protecting current and future generations

Aly Kimber-Herridge, Born Green Project Manager

Amy Manning, Born Green Project Manager

Karen Taylor, Assistant Sustainability Manager, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT.

16:00 – 16:45 Reducing the carbon footprint of pharmacy: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Greener Pharmacy Toolkit

Dr Madeleine Winder, Chief Sustainability Officer Clinical Fellow

“Your Medicines Matter” campaign relaunched and reinvigorated for sustainability 

Rob Elsey, Head of GM Strategic Pharmacy Transformation,

Emma Boxall, Critical Care Pharmacist

Jo Aldham, GM Pharmacy Programme Manager

09:00 – 09:45 The use of diagnostic stewardship to reduce the environmental impact of clinical laboratories

Rob Shorten, Consultant Clinical Scientist

10:00 – 10:45 Translating sustainability into hospital leadership

Dr Frank Swinton, Consultant Anaesthetist and Deputy Medical Director

11:00 – 11:45 Sustainability in theatres

Dr Louise Sanderson, Consultant Anaesthetist

BREAK

13:00 – 13:45 Making Greener and Better Healthcare easy for general practice

Dr Aarti Bansal, GP and Director of Greener Practice CIC

14:00 – 14:45 Large scale PV, challenges, benefits and next steps

Marc Beaumont, Head of Sustainability, Hull university Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

15:00 – 15:45 Climate is a public health emergency, learning from the power of DPH advocacy and partnerships’

Greg Fell, Director of Public Health, Sheffield

Jessica Marshall, Leadership Fellow, Climate and Health, Y&H Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)

16:00 – 16:45  Harnessing Nature for Health and Environment – Co-Creation and Spatial Mapping on NHS Estates and Beyond

George Coombs and Esther Smith, Health & Environment Senior Officer(s) (North West and North East)

09:00 – 09:45 Net Zero Northumbria

Speaker TBC

10:00 – 10:45 Reusable equipment for hysteroscopy

Speaker TBC

11:00 – 12:00 Health System Resilience for Extreme Weather Emergencies

John Richmond Lecturer in Healthcare Management and Leadership, University of Sheffield

Building Adaptation Capability in the NHS

Morgan Roberts – Sustainability West Midlands

Jonny Casey Project Manager, Head of Climate Ready Leadership

BREAK

13:00 – 13:45 Sustainable Kidney Care

Improving environmental sustainability and equity in the Living Kidney Donor Pathway

Cath Richards, SusQI Lead, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Rosie Hillson, Sustainability Analyst, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Sustainable kidney care QI initiatives in Yorkshire & Humber

Leeanne Lockley, Quality Improvement Programme Manager, The UK Kidney Association

Dr Mark Wright, Consultant Nephrologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

14:00 – 14:45 Our Natural Health Service – Nature and ‘Green’ Therapy to support mental health

Emma Clarke, Head of Waste and Sustainability

Joe Courtney, Green Therapy Development Officer

Catherine Schofield, Chief Allied Health Professional

Nature Recovery Rangers

Dan Loveard, Green Space for Health Project Manager

15:00 – 15:45 Delivering Carbon Literacy Training for Healthcare at MFT – Challenges, Successes & Reflections

Sarah Hewett – Sustainability Officer & Elizabeth Murphy – Senior Sustainability Officer & Midwife

16:00 – 16:45 Low Carbon High Quality Respiratory Care , Greater Manchester

Dr Fran Collett-White – GP and Clinical Sustainability Lead, NHS Greater Manchester

09:00 – 09:45 NHS Greater Manchester Green Plan Approach

Claire Igoe Associate Director of Sustainability, NHS Greater Manchester

10:00 – 10:45 Reusable coil packs in primary care

Dr Honey Smith, Clinical sustainability Lead South Yorkshire

Kavitha Sethumadhavan, Net Zero Programme Manager, NHS England

Reduce, reuse, recycle – Walking Aids

Steve Smith, Technical instructor, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

11:00 – 11:45 Global challenges and Climate change education for the healthcare industry

Dr Richard Hixson Consultant Anaesthetist and co-founder Healthcare Ocean

BREAK

13:00 – 13:45  Emergency Response: How do we adapt to climate change?

Alexis Percival, Energy and Sustainability Manager

Dr Louise Elstow, Research Associate in Infrastructure Climate Adaptation, Cambridge University

14:00 – 14:45  Impact of nurses and midwives in sustainability and net zero

Emma Pascale Blakey, Lead Nurse for Sustainability

Rhea Conn, Clinical Sustainability Nurse Specialist

15:00 – 15:45 Developing and integrating healthcare sustainability in an Acute Medical Unit

Dr Natalie Beveridge, Consultant in Acute Medicine, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

16:00 – 16:45 Sustainable Healthcare Research – where are the gaps, and how can we help close them?

Dr Cliff Shelton, Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability,

Dr Catherine El Zerbi, Professor in Anaesthesia,

Dr Charlotte Hadley, Research Fellow in Sustainability &

Dr Sara Southall, Senior Research Associate in Sustainability