Sustainable health and social care

Programme

Breakfast workshop sponsored by Philips

Inspiring Change: Driving sustainability through research

For a solution or initiative to be truly sustainable it must incorporate an economic, environmental and social benefit. The panel at our breakfast workshop explored the role of research in proving these sustainability credentials, taking energy efficient lighting as an example of best practice.

Chair: Tina Tan, Editor, Clinica

Panellists:

• Dr David Pencheon, Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit
• Phil Nedin, Global Healthcare Business Leader, ARUP, UK
• Dr Luc Schlangen, Principal Scientist in Light, Health and Well-being; Brain, Body and Behaviour, Philips Research.

Session one: Sustainability as a core part of the quality agenda

Welcome, introduction, background, objectives
Chris Naylor, Fellow, Health Policy, The King's Fund

• Climate change and the health co-benefits of the low carbon economy
  Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Questions and discussion
• Transforming health care for a sustainable future – the challenge of delivering high value care
  Sir Muir Gray, Co-director, Righ Care, QIPP, Department of Health
  
• Questions and discussion

Session two: The role of the research community

Welcome back
David Pencheon, Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit

• The research agenda: an overview
  Professor John Appleby, Chief Economist, The King's Fund

Facilitated discussion 1: Where are the biggest needs and opportunities to develop a collaborative research base?

1. Models of care and clinical innovation
2. Technologies and facilities
3. Individual and organisational behaviours
4. Systems and policies at the national level
5. Assessing the scale of the challenge
   

Feedback from discussion groups

Session three: Towards a collaborative research strategy

Introduction to session
David Pencheon, Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit

• Towards a whole system approach to fair and sustainable health
  Sonia Roschnik, Operational Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit
• Beyond a sustainable infrastructure: what we need to know
  Phil Nedin, Director, Global Healthcare Business Leader, Arup
• Collaborative research principles
  Professor John Newton, Director of Public Health and Acting Chief Knowledge Officer, NHS South of England (Central)

Facilitated discussion 2: Proposals for collaborative action

1. Models of care and clinical innovation
2. Technologies and facilities
3. Individual and organisational behaviours
4. Systems and policies at the national level
5. Assessing the scale of the challenge

Feedback from discussion groups

Session four: Collaborative next steps

Welcome back
Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-chief, BMJ

Panel discussion: How do we establish a coherent and collaborative process for basing future policy and practice in this area on good evidence?

Collaborative next steps
David Pencheon, Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit