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)