Shift Now - The Sustainable Healthcare & Climate Solutions Roadshow

Event Overview:
International leaders from the UK, Australia and Ireland are in Dublin to spark a wave of Sustainable Healthcare and Climate solutions. Join us for an enlightening and impactful session dedicated to sustainable healthcare and ethical finance solutions. 

Our healthcare systems and societies face unprecedented challenges, but together, we can take small steps that make a huge impact. This event includes presentations, a Q&A session and an opportunity to connect and learn with like-minded people with an interest in accelerating and scaling sustainability solutions across our systems. 

This session is designed to inspire and equip you with the knowledge and tools to catalyse effective transformation starting in our workplace and communities. 

Why Attend?

Our healthcare systems face unsustainable challenges due to funding limitations, increasing and ageing populations and escalating risks from climate related impacts. 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 optimise 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 global 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 for our communities.

Event Details:

• Date:                  Wed 16th October, 2024
  
  
• Optional drop in times: 
  6-7pm                 Drinks & Canapes
  7-8.30pm            Short impactful talks
                             and Q&A with the panel
  After                   Social gathering
   
• Location:            The Rose Room,
                             The Clarence Hotel, 
                              6-8 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2
  
  

Presenters and Panel :

• Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE
  Professor Intensive Care, University College London,
  Co-chair, The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
  

  Geneticist, Author, Co-Founder Real Zero
  
  

• Dr Tara Shine
  Founder and CEO Change by Degrees
  Chair of the Board of Trustees of IIED
  Member of the board of Enterprise Ireland 
  Author, Broadcaster and TV presenter.
  

• Dr Sean Owens
  General Practitioner, ICGP Sustainability Working Group
  Chair, Climate and Health Alliance Ireland, Irish Doctors for the Environment
  
  
• Ethical Finance Expert - Guest Speaker
  
  
• Dr Ana Rakovac
  Consultant Chemical Pathologist
  Chair, RCPI Advisory Group on Climate Action
  Chair, Green Team Network, HSE
  
  
• Dr Brian O’Connell 
  Emergency Physician, General Practitioner, Climate Risk & Sustainable Healthcare Clinical Lead, Australia. 
  Board Director, Climate and Health Alliance Australia, UNSW Conj Lecturer,
  Deputy Chair, Sustainable Emergency Medicine and Climate Advocacy Network, ACEM
  First Net Zero Lead for NSW Emergency Departments
  
  
• University Climate Alliance - Guest Speaker
  
  
• Dr Colm Byrne 
  Geriatrician. Research into Health Effects of Air Pollution.
  Irish Doctors for the Environment
  
  
• Ethical Banking - Guest Speaker
  
  
• Adrian Byrne
  Director, Real Zero
  Former Director of Financial Strategy, NHS, London
  

Topics for consideration

• The 7Acts.
  • What are they? And how can they cause a tipping point towards global climate solutions?
    
• How Moving our Money can help solve the Climate Crisis
  • Make My Money Matter
  • Irish focused resources also
    
• Does voting make difference for the Health and Climate Crisis?
  
  • Poll shows the Irish public still “solidly supportive” of Government policy to cut emissions
    
    
• Moving healthcare facilities towards plant-based menus
  • More Plant-Based Food; Seasonal & Local – Why?
    
    
• Reducing Low Value Care
  • Unnecessary pathology testing
  • De-prescribing Unnecessary Medications
  • The Gloves are Off!
    
    
• Energy stewardship
  • CT switch for savings
  • Lights off / Computers off initiatives

**All feedback welcomed. 
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