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  • About us

      About us

    • Our approach to working together
      • Bradford Local Plan
      • Calderdale Local Plan
      • Harrogate Local Plan
      • Kirklees Local Plan
      • Leeds Local Plan
      • Wakefield Local Plan
    • Our partners
      • Proud to be a partnership
    • Our leadership
    • Partnership Board
    • Positive about Islam
  • Our priorities

      Our priorities

      Our Partnership is made up of organisations working closely together to plan services and address the challenges facing health and care services across the area.

    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources
      • COVID-19 vaccination programme
      • Working together to reduce health inequalities
    • Cancer
    • Capital and estates
    • Children, young people and families
    • Digital technology
      • Local health and care record exemplars
      • GP Online Consultation
    • Hospitals working together
    • Housing and Health
    • Improving planned care
      • Our West Yorkshire and Harrogate commissioning policies
    • Improving population health
      • Review into impacts of COVID-19 for BAME communities and staff
      • Diabetes Network
      • Climate Change
    • Innovation and improvement
    • Maternity care
    • Mental health, learning disability and autism
      • Learning disabilities
    • Our work with the community and voluntary sector
    • Preventing ill health
      • Healthy Hearts
      • Loneliness
    • Primary and community care
    • Personalised Care
    • Stroke
    • Supporting carers
      • Your Carers Toolkit
      • Working carers and Covid-19
    • Urgent and emergency care
      • Rotational trainee nursing associate apprenticeship course
      • Help us help you to get ‘to the right place first time'
    • Workforce
      • West Yorkshire & Harrogate Excellence Centre
      • Workforce health and wellbeing
      • System and Leadership Development Programme
  • News

      News

    • Blogs
    • Podcasts
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Meetings

      Meetings

    • Upcoming events
    • Meetings affected by coronavirus
    • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings
      • About this review
    • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Previous meetings
      • Future meetings
      • Contact the Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Get involved
    • Our Partnership Board
      • Partnership Board papers
      • Board membership
      • Ask the Partnership Board a question
      • Partnership Board webcast
  • Publications

      Publications

      In this section you will find links to useful information and publications about our partnership.

    • Tackling health inequalities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and colleagues
    • Better health and wellbeing for everyone: Our five year plan
    • Our Next Steps
    • Our Workforce Strategy​
    • Other Publications
    • Improving Population Health Annual Report
    • An Ethical Framework for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • Get involved

      Get involved

      We are committed to meaningful conversations with people, on the right issues at the right time. We believe this is an important part of the way we work.

    • Check-in: staff suicide prevention campaign
    • The NHS Long Term Plan
    • Looking out for our neighbours
    • Health and care champions
    • The work of our Health and Care Champions
  • Engagement and consultation

      Engagement and consultation

      Engagement gives people an opportunity to have their say on services. By gathering people's views, it helps us understand what matters to people.

    • Integrated Care Systems legislation
  • Any questions?

      Any questions?

      In this section you will find all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to our Partnership. You can also ask a question of your own.

    • You said, we did...
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Contact us

Climate Change

“We aspire to become a global leader in responding to the climate emergency through increased mitigation, investment and culture change throughout our system”

A warm welcome from the West Yorkshire &Harrogate Health and Care Partnership’s Climate Change team!

We are leading the delivery of the Integrated Care system’s ambition on Climate change, working collaboratively across and beyond the system to ensure everyone plays their part on our most urgent agenda.

The ambition above is from the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership’s Five Year Plan.

On this page you can learn more about our work, towards this goal, what’s on offer for your organisation, and how to get in touch with us if you would like to be involved.

Meet the team:

Frank Swinton

Frank works for the Partnership two days a week. The rest of the time he is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Airedale Hospital. Frank has an MSc in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability and volunteers as a Trustee for Sustrans. Email: Frank.swinton@nhs.net

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John Ebo

John is acting assistant director for improving population health, focussing on a number of work strands including our climate change ambition. He holds an MSc in Public Policy & Management and has broad leadership experience in the Public, Private and VCSE sectors. He works for the partnership 2 days a week. Email: john.ebo@leeds.gov.uk

Jeanetter Miller

Verity Phillips

Verity is the Programme Support Officer for the Partnership’s Improving Population Health Programme. She provides support across all work streams, and Verity’s MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation gives her added insight when supporting climate change projects. Email: verity.phillips3@nhs.net

Strategy priorities

Our work focuses on two main themes:

  1. A healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable society

  2. Reduce impact of residual healthcare via a high quality, equitable and environmentally sustainable health and care system

Within these themes are pieces of work on transport and air quality, housing, health inequalities, inclusive and green economy, insight and analysis (metrics), estates (buildings, energy, waste), travel (staff, patients, visitors, business), technology and innovation, clinical care (including anaesthetic gases, inhalers and green social prescribing), engaging the whole workforce, and social care.

Green Social Prescribing Grant Scheme (open to voluntary, community and public sector organisations)

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership is looking to fund innovative projects, which help connect people to nature, improve physical and mental health and reduce health inequalities.

  • Apply or find out more about the Green Social Prescribing Grant Scheme

Training courses (open to West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care organisations and staff)

We will fund 100 spaces on a Centre for Sustainable Healthcare course for people working in West Yorkshire and Harrogate health and care.

Link to courses offered by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

This includes the following courses:

  • Intro to Sustainable Healthcare
  • Sustainable Quality Improvement
  • Carbon Footprinting for the Health Sector
  • Green Space and Health

To register for one of these funded spaces, please email verity.phillips3@nhs.net. You will need to secure the time from your manager to attend.

Things that are on offer with no cost to your organisation:

City Connect promotes walking and cycling in West Yorkshire. Link to City Connect. 

The Travel Plan Network is a free membership scheme for any employer in West Yorkshire who is committed to encouraging their staff to travel to work sustainably. They offer significant benefits and discounts on a range of travel modalities. Link to the Travel Plan Network.

The Energy Saving Trust has a huge amount of information available to organisations and individuals. Link to Engergy Saving Trust. They offer free fleet reviews for public and private sector organisations. Link to fleet review information.

The White Rose Forest is one of four community forests in the north of England working together to create the larger Northern Forest that will stretch from Merseyside across Manchester and Yorkshire. They have trees to plant but are looking for land. Link to the White Rose Forest.

The NHS Forest is also looking for planting opportunities. Link to the NHS Forest.

Resources:

There are a great many resources available online. We have listed some below that we feel will be most useful to organisations and individuals working in health and social care in West Yorkshire and Harrogate. If you are looking for something which is not listed, please do get in touch and we will try to signpost you.

  • Greener NHS is the website covering the efforts of the NHS in England. Link to Greener NHS. Greener NHS used to be the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and the website is currently being transitioned. This should be completed by 28th February 2021. On 1st October 2020 they published their strategy document setting out their ambition for the NHS in England to be net carbon zero by 20. Link to Net Zero Health Service.
  • The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare offers strategic input and consultancy on sustainable healthcare research and practice to national and local programmes. Link to Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Their Networks tend to be very active and are a fantastic resource if you have a specific question. Link to CSH Networks.
  • Fingertips from Public Health England is a fantastic resource for data on wider determinants of health. Link to Fingertips.
  • The Dasgupta Review was published on 2nd February 2021. It reviews the economics of biodiversity and clearly indicates that we need to be taking biodiveristy into consideration in all our decisions, economic and otherwise. Link to Dasgupta Review.
  • This article from the British Medical Journal lays out a pathway to net zero emissions for healthcare. Link to pathway to net zero emissions article.
  • Greener Practice is a resource created by two GPs from Sheffield. They have a lot of information about primary care and lots of further links. Link to Greener Practice.
  • Many National organisations such as medical Royal Colleges have sustainability or climate change pages on their websites. The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change is an umbrella organisation bringing these groups together. Link to UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.
  • Care Without Carbon is created by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and is a great example of what can be achieved. Link to Care Without Carbon.
  • If you would like to learn about carbon footprinting for healthcare then the first module of this online course is free. Link to free carbon footprinting module.
  • Chapter Zero have issued this helpful primer for Non-Executive Directors to help them understand the questions they should be asking about climate change. Link to Non-Executive Primer by Chapter Zero.
  • Health Declares have published a guide for organisations that wish to declare a climate emergency. Link to Health Declares guide to declaring a Climate Emergency.

Engagement

We are currently hosting an engagement process which should feedback to us in mid 2021.

We have lay representation on our Steering Committee and we welcome comments from the public using the “contact us” form below

Summit

In November 2019 we hosted a two day sustainable healthcare summit.

Link to the Summit Programme.

It was very well received according to the participant feedback and we wanted to share some of the content with you:

  • Link to Robin Tuddenham's presentation introducing the summit and setting out the local impacts of climate change.
  • Link to Alexis Percival's presentation about reusable PPE.
  • Link to Matt Sawyer's presentation about carbon footprinting for healthcare.
  • Link to Honey Smith's presentation about sustainable general practice.
  • Link to Jake Robinson's presentation about nature based interventions.
  • Link to Pete Waddingham's presentation about green innovation.
  • Link to Duncan Cooper's presentation about the carbon impact of inhalers.
  • Link to Gráinne Nolan's presentation about the importance of green and blue spaces.

 

 

 

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  • About us
    • About us

    • Our approach to working together
      • Our approach to working together

      • Bradford Local Plan
      • Calderdale Local Plan
      • Harrogate Local Plan
      • Kirklees Local Plan
      • Leeds Local Plan
      • Wakefield Local Plan
    • Our partners
      • Our partners

      • Proud to be a partnership
    • Our leadership
    • Partnership Board
    • Positive about Islam
  • Our priorities
    • Our priorities

    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources
      • Coronavirus (Covid-19) information and resources

      • COVID-19 vaccination programme
      • Working together to reduce health inequalities
    • Cancer
    • Capital and estates
    • Children, young people and families
    • Digital technology
      • Digital technology

      • Local health and care record exemplars
      • GP Online Consultation
    • Hospitals working together
    • Housing and Health
    • Improving planned care
      • Improving planned care

      • Our West Yorkshire and Harrogate commissioning policies
    • Improving population health
      • Improving population health

      • Review into impacts of COVID-19 for BAME communities and staff
      • Diabetes Network
      • Climate Change
    • Innovation and improvement
    • Maternity care
    • Mental health, learning disability and autism
      • Mental health, learning disability and autism

      • Learning disabilities
    • Our work with the community and voluntary sector
    • Preventing ill health
      • Preventing ill health

      • Healthy Hearts
      • Loneliness
    • Primary and community care
    • Personalised Care
    • Stroke
    • Supporting carers
      • Supporting carers

      • Your Carers Toolkit
      • Working carers and Covid-19
    • Urgent and emergency care
      • Urgent and emergency care

      • Rotational trainee nursing associate apprenticeship course
      • Help us help you to get ‘to the right place first time'
    • Workforce
      • Workforce

      • West Yorkshire & Harrogate Excellence Centre
      • Workforce health and wellbeing
      • System and Leadership Development Programme
  • News
    • News

    • Blogs
    • Podcasts
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Meetings
    • Meetings

    • Upcoming events
    • Meetings affected by coronavirus
    • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings
      • Supporting our BAME communities and staff - Review Panel meetings

      • About this review
    • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • West Yorkshire and Harrogate Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups

      • Previous meetings
      • Future meetings
      • Contact the Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups
      • Get involved
    • Our Partnership Board
      • Our Partnership Board

      • Partnership Board papers
      • Board membership
      • Ask the Partnership Board a question
      • Partnership Board webcast
  • Publications
    • Publications

    • Tackling health inequalities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and colleagues
    • Better health and wellbeing for everyone: Our five year plan
    • Our Next Steps
    • Our Workforce Strategy​
    • Other Publications
    • Improving Population Health Annual Report
    • An Ethical Framework for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
    • The difference our Partnership is making
    • COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • Get involved
    • Get involved

    • Check-in: staff suicide prevention campaign
    • The NHS Long Term Plan
    • Looking out for our neighbours
    • Health and care champions
    • The work of our Health and Care Champions
  • Engagement and consultation
    • Engagement and consultation

    • Integrated Care Systems legislation
  • Any questions?
    • Any questions?

    • You said, we did...
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Contact us