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Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine)
Our next in person presentation will take place on 9 August between 12noon – 1.30pm in the Lecture Theatre, Education Centre, Royal Victoria Infirmary. Our Members Event will focus on one of our Trust priorities – tackling the health emergency that is the climate emergency.
We will hear from Anna-Lisa Mills, Programme Manager for Sustainability, on why the climate emergency is a health emergency and how our award-winning Shine programme is aiming to help tackle this. We will also hear from Odeth Richardson, Head of Occupational Therapy, on a specific example of how our Occupational Therapy Team have lowered the carbon footprint of their care pathway.
The programme is as follows:
| 12noon | Welcome by Professor Sir John Burn, Trust Chairman Introduction by Pam Yanez, Lead Governor |
| 12.15pm 12:45pm 13:15 | The Climate Emergency is a Health Emergency: Shine Update Presentation by Anna-Lisa Mills, Programme Manager – Sustainability This presentation will be split into two parts: i) a Climate Reality Check, explaining why the climate emergency is a health emergency, and ii) outlining our Climate Emergency Strategy & Progress towards each of our Shine priority action areas Reabling, Recycling, Researching Presentation by Odeth Richardson, Head of Occupational Therapy This presentation will cover the journey of a particular issue we had in cleaning specific items of equipment, how we worked with others to research an alternative and the resultant reduction in our carbon footprint and costs Discussion/Questions & Answers |
| 13:30 | Close by Professor Sir John Burn, Trust Chairman |
If you would like to attend the event, please call us on freephone 0800 015 0136 or email your name, address and telephone number to: nuth.members@nhs.net.
We are keen to keep you informed about all of the fantastic events we hold, including our Annual General Meeting. Further information will be released in due course. So please do make sure that we have your current email address to keep you up to date.
You can also find out more about the many exciting developments and achievements led by our amazing staff by following our Chief Executive Dame Jackie Daniel’s fortnightly blog at www.damejackiesblog.co.uk. In keeping with the theme of this member event, Dame Jackie’s recent blog focused on our work to tackle the Climate Emergency through our Shine programme which you can read here: https://www.damejackiesblog.co.uk/our-ambitions-to-become-carbon-net-zero).
We also update our website regularly and post daily on our social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – all of which can be found @NewcastleHosps. All you need to do is ‘Like’ and ‘Follow’ us, and then join in the conversation! Please feel free to tweet your photos and comments about the event using the #NewcastleMembersEvent..
