West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership – Climate Change Virtual Summit

You are invited to the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Climate Change Virtual Summit, which will take place over two days on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 October 2020 from 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Over the two days there will be twelve workshops, each one will explore how as health and social care partners we can reduce the effects of climate change and prepare for its impacts.

Please book onto as many workshops as you like. The sessions will take place at the following times around key topic areas.

Day 1 workshops:

09:30 – Welcome and introduction

10:00 – Keynote speakers

11:05 – Inhalers

12:15 – Lunch and informal networking – Ecology quiz and open mic

13:30 – Sustainable primary care

14:35 – Carbon conversations “taster session”(limited spaces)

Day 2 workshops:

09:30 – Welcome and introduction

10:00 – Greenspace

11:05 – Active travel, prescribing and travel to hospital

12:15 – Lunch and a laugh with climate change comedian, Dr. Matt Winning

13:35 – Leadership in a time of climate emergency

15:05 – Reusable personal protective equipment and green innovation

16:05 – Next steps and close

Guest speakers include:

Rob Webster (West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership CEO Lead)

Robin Tuddenham (CEO, Calderdale Council and Co-Chair of the Partnership’s Improving Population Health Programme)

James Thomas (Clinical Chair, Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group and Co-Chair of the Partnership’s Improving Population Health Programme)