Health and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate

Resources from workshop event

The downloadable resources below are from the East Midlands workshop that took place on 1st March 2013 in Nottingham, designed for members of the new Health and Wellbeing Boards and the organisations and individuals that support them. This was one of eight such events across England organised by Climate UK in association with the Environment Agency. The Nottingham event was hosted by Climate East Midlands and the East Midlands NHS Sustainable Development Network.

The Event Report contains all the speaker presentations (in 6 slides per page Handout format), discussion notes, evaluation comments and results of an interactive exercise. If you wish to see any of the presentations in more detail, these can be downloaded separately (1 slide per page) below.

Some of the headline health impacts of climate change for the East Midlands are included in Climate East MIdlands summary of the UK Climate Change Risk Asessment, below.

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File Downloads

Event Report | (pdf 6.5MB)

Welcome presentation from Helen Ross, East Midlands NHS Sustainable Development Network | (pdf 962kb)

Context and Climate Ready - presentation from Jim Hodgson, Environment Agency (Theme Lead for Health and Wellbeing) | (pdf 185kb)

'Why this stuff really matters...' presentation from Will Day, Sustainability Advisor to pwc | (pdf 4.8MB)

Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Joint Strategic Needs Asessments - presentation by Dr David Pencheon OBE, Director of NHS Sustainable Development Unit | (pptx 3.5MB)

Extreme Events and Climate Change - the emerging local challenges. Presentation by Prof Virginia Murray, Head of Extreme Events at the Health Potection Agency | (pdf 4.3MB)

Understanding climate impacts on vulnerable people - presentation by Dr Sarah Lindley, University of Manchester | (ppt 6.7MB)

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