Sustainable Respiratory Care Workshop
| Venue | FREE EVENT - Online |
| Refreshments Included | No |
| Free Event | Yes |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |
| Date | 25 Sep 2024 09:00 - 25 Sep 2024 13:00 |
| Pricing | |
| €0.00 | |
Live workshop online
Wednesday 25 September 2024
0900-1300
Course details
This foundation course offers an overview of the relationship between human health and the climate and ecological crises, with a focus on respiratory health. It demonstrates how the health system is vulnerable to, but also contributes to, climate change and ecological degradation, examines the specific contribution of inhalers to carbon emissions and other environmental impacts and explores how to develop a more sustainable approach to respiratory healthcare whilst maintaining or improving quality of care.
The course also highlights the leadership role healthcare staff can play in the transformation towards a system that works for all, within planetary boundaries.
Course Structure
Part I. Self-study online – Opening 4 weeks prior to the workshop this consists of 6 hrs of interactive online materials, presented in bite-sized chunks, covering all course content including background, theory, and case studies, with optional links to further information.
Part II. Live workshop online – based largely around smaller group discussion this 4-hour virtual workshop, aims to consolidate your understanding of the course materials, build networks with colleagues and help you to translate your learning into implementation of a respiratory project in your area of work.
Part III. Mentoring – on completion of parts 1 and 2 you are invited to attend our online Sustainable Healthcare Cafés. The 1 hour cafes occur regularly throughout the year and offer a friendly, informal setting in which to:
- Get inspiration and support for sustainability projects from peers and CSH staff
- Make connections with others interested in sustainability both across and within specialities.
More information
https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/courses/sustainable-respiratory-care
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Describe the risks the global environmental crisis presents to human health and healthcare systems.
- Describe the contribution of the health sector to the global environmental crisis.
- Understand the basic principles of carbon literacy.
- Understand how sustainability can help to address existing challenges in the healthcare system.
- Apply the principles of sustainability to healthcare services.
- Plan a project to improve the sustainability of healthcare in your workplace.
Presenter Details:
Dr Hayley Pinto
Education and Training Lead Hayley was a lead consultant addiction psychiatrist with nearly 30 yrs experience in the NHS and publicly funded services. She is a medical educator, and currently senior honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia, and has been involved in climate education, outreach, and activism for several years. Hayley also has a degree in psychology and completed general practice training before pursuing a career in psychiatry.
Stefi Barna
Education Director Stefi is a global health academic with a background in history. She taught planetary health at Queen Mary University of London and public health at Norwich Medical School.
Dr. Aarti Bansal
Aarti founded the Greener Practice network in 2017 to enable primary care to move towards environmentally sustainable healthcare. Her main interest is in the integration of sustainable clinical healthcare principles into all aspects of policy and professional practice. She is co-chair of the RCGP Climate Emergency Advisory Group and is working to support the RCGP, BMA, NHSE and others to develop and implement a primary care sustainability strategy.
Tamsin Ellis
Tamsin is a GP in London who designed the CSH Sustainable Primary Care course. She is a North East London RCGP faculty lead for climate and health and sustainability scholar, and currently undertaking a leadership fellowship with a sustainability focus in London. She also chairs the Greener Practice London group and is interested in the crossover of sustainable primary care with improving health equity.
Kathleen Leedham-Green
Kay is a doctor working within medical education, mostly primary care. She supported the introduction of sustainability learning outcomes into our core curriculum at KCL through a global health webinar on climate change and a sustability impact assessment element to quality improvement projects. She also taught on the social and behavioural determinants of health including a set of e-learning modules on patient-centred approaches to addressing obesity in a consultation. At Imperial she introduced environmentally informed medicine into their social accountability agenda and quality improvement modules. She also supports faculty development in education and scholarship, leading the Clinical Teaching Fellow faculty development at Imperial College and teaches on the masters in clinical education at KCL.
