Across sectors and regions the most vulnerable people and systems are observed to be disproportionately affected. The rise in weather and climate extremes has led to some irreversible impacts as natural and human systems are pushed beyond their ability to adapt. (high confidence)
(source: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability)
Key successes from the Partnership’s climate team working across the whole system have been:
● Establishing a diverse steering group to help us ensure the work is effective
● Establishing sustainability networks in:
○ Pharmacy
○ Procurement
○ Respiratory care
○ Primary care
○ Anaesthetics
○ Board level net zero leads
○ Operational leads
● Providing a training offer for 200 spaces for West Yorkshire colleagues and volunteers on courses run by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
● Incorporating sustainability in the syllabus of the national NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
● Green social prescribing grants and evaluation work
● Active travel grant scheme
● Reduction of desflurane use in every hospital in the region to almost zero
● £1m Winter Warmth programme delivered by the Partnership to help people live in warmer, dryer homes to help reduce the likelihood that people will need healthcare
● All acute providers of NHS services in the region have produced a Green Plan and many organisations have sustainability plans and adaptation plans too