Hybrid event:

Multiple session forum
Individualised preference / Diverse topics
Flexible times / Online and in person

Event Overview:

Join us for an enlightening and impactful day dedicated to sustainable healthcare and climate solutions at the UNSW and Port Macquarie Base Hospital. Our healthcare systems face unprecedented challenges, but together, we can take small steps that make a huge impact. This full-day drop-in event includes presentations, Q&A sessions, workshops, and interactive pop-up desks, all designed to inspire and equip you with the knowledge and tools to drive high-value care and reduce waste.

Why Attend?

Our healthcare systems face unsustainable challenges due to a projected ageing population and increasing risks from heat, floods, and bushfires. 30% of healthcare practices are considered low value, providing little or no benefit to patients. By collaborating, we can deliver better, tailored care, reduce waste, and optimize health funding.

The health community now recognizes fossil fuels as significant health hazards, contributing to an estimated 5.1 million excess deaths per year globally due to air pollution. The healthcare system itself contributes over 5% of Australia’s fossil fuel emissions, exacerbating climate-related health impacts.

However, we have an opportunity to reverse this trend. By decreasing emissions and improving our patient care delivery, we can make a substantial impact. Join us to learn how small, collective individual shifts can lead to significant, positive changes in our healthcare system and the environment.

Keynote and leading Speakers 1st Aug events:

Professor Nicholas Talley: ‘What are the greatest threats to our health and systems? And how we can address them.’
Past President of the RACP, Editor-in-Chief of the MJA, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Neurogastroenterologist, Chair DEA. Considered one of the world's most influential clinician-researchers
Professor Ian Scott: ‘We are in the era of High-Value Care. This is how we can move together.’
Adj. Prof. Medicine QUT, Prof. Clinical Decision-making UQ, Chair, Metro South Clinical AI Working Group
Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE: ‘20 years of research in climate impacts in health – What we need to do now.'

Intensive Care, UCL, Lancet Editor, Global lead in Health and Climate, Geneticist, Author, UK

Professor Nick Watts: ‘Why Sustainable Healthcare is a win for patients, staff and systems - and how to do it.’
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, Singapore. Former, Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS
Caz Heise: ‘Accelerating transformation in Healthcare – Engaging people through impact and programs'Executive Lead, Sustainable Healthcare and District Director, Nursing/Midwifery/HSFAC
A/Prof Sally McCarthy AO: ‘Harnessing international and regional collaboration to drive local excellence in care’
Past President IFEM and ACEM, Conjoint Associate Professor, Critical Care, UNSW, Emergency Medicine, POWH
Craig Scowen / Thomas Bowe: ‘Harnessing statewide pathology data to help reduce unnecessary test ordering.’
Data, Performance Team – NSW Health Pathology
Dr. Simon Judkins: ‘Relaunching Choosing Wisely will drive down Low Value care’
Past-President ACEM, Chair sEMCAN, Vice-President AMA Victoria, Past Choosing Wisely lead.
James Katte: ‘Opportunities to leverage positive change in hospital systems’
Manager, Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Dr Helen Redmond ‘How we can harness our financial resources to reduce funding health hazards’
Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, Member of the Healthy Investment Special Interest Group, DEA
Dr. Brian O’Connell: ‘Sustainable healthcare & climate solutions – Social and organisational tipping points’
Sustainable Healthcare Lead, Dep Chair sEMCAN, Director CAHA, UNSW Conj. Lecturer, Emergency Physician

Event Schedule:

Date: Thursday, 1st Aug
Drop in Session times: Start 8am - Close 7.15pm

8am: Opening Symposium
Robert Oakeshott Lecture Theatre, Far UNSW building,
Biomedical Sciences Centre (formerly known as SHREC Building) 20 Highfields Circuit
Morning Workshops: 10am / 10.30am / 11am
Hospital Atrium
12-2pm: Hospital Atrium Pop-up Exhibition – Meet the teams / Share insight
With refreshments and social nibbles
12.30-1pm: Proposed Hospital Forest Walk
Meet at hospital front main entrance
Afternoon Workshops: 2.30pm / 3pm / 3.30pm
Hospital Atrium
4.30-5pm & 6.30-7.15pm: Social drinks and nibbles
5-6.30pm: Keynote Presentations - High impact solutions
Peter Reed Lecture Theatre, Near UNSW building
UNSW Rural Clinical School - 26 Highfields Circuit

Workshop Options:

Reducing Low Value Care – Pathology Tests
Reducing Low Value Care – Cannula Reduction
Reducing Low Value Care – De-prescribing Unnecessary Medications
Reducing Low Value Care – Imaging Rationalisation
Green Spaces
Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge
Food and Veggie Patches
Waste
Climate Risk and Solutions
IT / AI
Transport
Energy and Water
Supply Chains / Circular Economy

How to Register:

Staff can register their preferences for workshops via this Humantix page.
Please indicate which sessions you are able to attend and your interest areas.
The event facilitators will provide workshops according to demand and availability of attendees.

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