International SUSTAINABLE EMERGENCY CARE

INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE EMERGENCY CARE

Excellent Care, Without Waste
Value-Based Sustainable Healthcare

Patient-centred. Clinician-led.
Better for patients, systems, and our future.

Aligned with Choosing Wisely International

🌍 THE FIRST GLOBAL WEBINAR

Thursday 20 November 2025

7:00–8:15 PM | Sydney
8:00–9:15 AM | UK/Irl
9:00–10:15 AM | Europe
4:00–5:15 PM | HK/Malaysia

- FREE Online Webinar + Recording Access -
Recommended DONATION please to keep the Sustainable Emergency Care website resources free for every ED in the world

Registration open to anyone in Emergency Care, Sustainable Healthcare, Nursing, Allied Health, Leadership, and Research. All healthcare staff are welcomed!

🌐 Featuring Speakers and Programs from:

🇦🇺 Australia - Dr.s Brian O'Connell & Matt Knox
🇳🇿 NZ - Dr.s Debbie Wilson (RN) & John Bonning
🇬🇧 UK - Dr.s Zoe Steley & Mark Henderson
🇮🇪 Ireland - Dr Callum Swift
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe - Dr.s Maartje Melse & Harry Achterberg
🌏 Plus international guests

1️⃣ Sustainable Emergency Care Website (Beta version)

Over 130 free resources covering clinical sustainable healthcare, education, research, and implementation tools - webpage link.
Built by emergency staff, for emergency staff.

2️⃣ The SuCCEED Program

Sustainable healthcare & Choosing wisely Clinical Educators in Emergency Departments - webpage link.
A world-first clinician-led program building capacity, skills, and impact.

What You’ll Learn

a) Global Projects Scaling Now

• The Global Emergency Gloves Off Campaign
  Reducing unnecessary glove use, improving hand hygiene.
  Better for patients, staff, budgets, and the planet.

• Choosing Tests Wisely
  Tackling pathology overuse across multiple countries.
  
  

b) Education & Research

• Active international projects

• Data insights

• New frameworks for sustainable emergency medicine
  

The Program

7 Presentations | 7 Minutes

0mins - Welcome & Overview

7mins - SustainableED & Pathology Initiatives

14mins - Gloves Off! Catalysing Emergency Projects

21mins - RCEM UK - GreenED Updates

28mins - From A to B - Australia to Belfast! Sustainable Pollination.

35mins - From a Pilot to a National Program in less than a year

42mins - Dutch Grassroots Projects to Inspire and Scale

49mins - How to SuCCEED - Clinical Educators & Choosing Wisely

56mins - Live Q&A with our audience

70mins - Summary & Next Steps

75mins - Close & Champagne/Coffee... depending on your timezone!

Call to Action!
Do the 1 - 2 - 3

1. Small Project - Gloves Off?

2. Colleagues / Partners

3. Months to reach your achievable SMART goal

In the pipeline...

a) Coordinated Choosing Wisely International Projects

• Deprescribing unnecessary medicines

• Rational Radiology projects
  
  

b) Getting Funded Positions in Your Hospitals

• Harnessing millions of dollars (euros) of cost savings to build teams of funded clinicians to work across your health system

• Use data-informed outcomes and proven business models to scale projects across networks
  
  

c) Carbon Hotspots & Practical Solutions

• Nitrous oxide elimination and alternatives

• Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) and low-carbon respiratory care

  
  

Acknowledging trail-blazing work done in Emergency Medicine by:

• The RCEM GreenED Teams

• The ACEM SEMCAN Network

• The NSW Health - Climate Risk and Net Zero Unit - ED Hub

• The IAEM GreenEM & HSE Teams

• The EUSEM ESCAPE Network

• The IFEM Teams
  
  

Strongly aligned with leading organisations:

• Real Zero

• CSH - Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

• GGHH - Global Green and Healthy Hospitals

• CAHA - Climate and Health Alliance

• UK HACC - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

• DEA - Doctors for the Environment Australia

• IDE - Irish Doctors for the Environment

• IHCA Sustainable Healthcare Symposium
  

🔗 Registration

Free registration required to attend live and to receive the link to the recorded webinar.