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MACC Hub Webinar Series #4: Climate Ready Healthcare Systems – our biggest challenge?

The MACC Hub invites attendees to join a conversation on one of the biggest challenges in our changing climate – how to create climate ready healthcare systems that support the wellbeing of all people and places?
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  • October 1, 2025
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  • Event: 14/10/2025 - 11:00 (UTC +01:00) - 12:00 (UTC +01:00)

Date and Time

Date: October 14, 2025
Time: 11-12pm (GMT+1)
Location: Online

Aim

The MACC Hub invites attendees to join a conversation on one of the biggest challenges in our changing climate – how to create climate ready healthcare systems that support the wellbeing of all people and places?

Background

Climate impacts have serious consequences for the delivery of health services, ranging from flood and overheating risks to hospitals and healthcare sites, supply chain disruption, and transport failure, as well as new pressures on the health system as a result of heatwaves, pests and diseases, and other extreme weather events.

The Climate Change Committee’s 2023 Progress in adapting to climate change report highlights that across the health sector in the UK, “insufficient progress” is being made in the delivery and implementation of climate adaptation. The Care Quality Commission has highlighted the need for risk assessments to cover operational risks from extreme weather and climate-specific challenges. Understanding, anticipating, and adapting to these new challenges is essential to developing a more climate-resilient healthcare system.

Agenda

This webinar will hear from four leading experts across the UK who are pioneering approaches that understand and address the intersections between health and climate change – from supporting the most vulnerable communities, to improving NHS estates, to better emergency planning and response. The webinar will explore questions including:

  • What are the biggest challenges to a realising climate-ready healthcare systems in the UK?
  • How are health outcomes for different groups in society being impacted by climate change?
  • What existing support and guidance exists to create well-adapting healthcare systems?
  • How will we need to do things differently to ensure all people in society have strong health outcomes in a changing climate?

Speakers

Chaired by Jonny Casey, Head of Programmes and Partnerships at Verture, we’re pleased to welcome to the panel:

  • Neil Cartwright, Net Zero Programme Manager, Greener NHS North East & Yorkshire (England)
  • Clare Macintosh, North West Net Zero Programme Lead, Greener NHS North East & Yorkshire (England)
  • Evelin Bocanegra Rios, Sustainability Manager, NHS Assure Scotland (Scotland)

Registration details

This is a virtual event, free for all

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