Format: Online session
Stream: Populations
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There is no Planet B. The climate crisis is the single greatest health challenge of the 21st century. Health systems are increasingly treating the negative consequences of climate change, many of which are disproportionately distributed. Healthcare is also increasingly managing the direct and indirect impacts However, the healthcare sector internationally faces an urgent call to action to reduce its carbon footprint and protect communities from climate threats, as one of the largest polluters and resource users. We will share our breath of experience of leading globally and locally toward improving progress to net zero. We will discuss opportunities and challenges and provide tangible examples of approaches and demonstrable impacts. We will highlight examples from national policy and frameworks through to translation into local action at health system strategy and project level, this session will be highly relevant to everyone improving healthcare. 

 

As a result of the session, participants will be able to:

• Access learning from healthcare systems utilising QI methods to pursue equity 


• Identify examples of tackling health through addressing climate solutions through applying improvement method 


• Galvanise actions to lead and support net zero work

Donald M. Berwick Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA

Dominique Allwood Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust / UCLPartners, England 

Jason Leitch Scottish Government, Scotland