Sustainable Healthcare Solutions Roadshow - Nepean

Hybrid event:

• Multiple drop-in session forum
• Diverse speakers & 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 Nepean Hospital and USyd Nepean Clinical School. 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 unprecedented challenges, but together, we can take small steps that make a huge impact.  

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 recognises 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:
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• Dr Faraz Pathan
• Cardiologist, Head of cardiac research NBMLHD
• Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE: ‘20 yrs 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
  
• Susan Crosbie
  Sustainability Manager NBMLHD
  
• Dr. Simon Judkins: ‘The Power of Networks - Sustaining the momentum!'
  Past-President ACEM, Chair sEMCAN, Vice-President AMA Victoria, Past Choosing Wisely lead.
  
• Dr Helen Redmond: Rehabilitation physician, DEA 
• Julia Farrington: Principle Policy Officer, Climate Risk and Net Zero Unit, NSW Department of Health
• Dr. Brian O’Connell: ‘The Rational Investigations Program - The RiP-ple Effect'
  Sustainable Healthcare Lead, Dep Chair sEMCAN, Director CAHA, UNSW Conj. Lecturer, Emergency Physician

Event Schedule:

• Date: Tuesday, 22nd October
  
• Drop in Session times: Start 8am - Close 5.45 pm

• 8-9am: Opening Symposium 
  
  
• 10-11:30am Morning Workshops
  Hospital Atrium
  
  
• 12-2pm: Hospital Atrium Pop-up Exhibition – Meet the teams / Share insights
  With refreshments and social nibbles
  
  
• 12.30-1pm: Planting the seeds - From grey to green hospital walk
  Explore outside - Garden visit - green spaces for improved health
  
  
• 2:30-4pm Afternoon Workshops
  Hospital Atrium
  
  
• 4.30 -5.30pm: Keynote Presentations - High impact solutions
  5.30 - 6pm - Nibbles & Networking
  

Workshop Options:

• Reducing Low Value Care – Pathology Tests
• Reducing Low Value Care – Cannula Reduction
• Reducing Low Value Care – De-prescribing Unnecessary Medications
  
  
• Green Spaces
• Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge
• Food and Veggie Patches
• Waste optimisation 
  
  
• Climate Risk and Solutions
• Active Transport
• 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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Teams Links 8am OPENING SYMPOSIUM

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Teams Links 4.30pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS 

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