The economics of healthcare in a climate crisis: Alexis Percival, Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Dear Friends, Café Economique invites you to meeting on Tuesday 5th May 7.30pm

The economics of healthcare in a climate crisis: Alexis Percival, Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Outline
As the climate crisis deepens the health care system will bear the brunt of the impacts through a changing change.  There will be an increase on the impacts reeked on the population  through increased extreme weather incidents, increase in storms, heatwaves, droughts, flooding, flash floods, mass migrations, air quality, sea level rise and the change in vector carrying insects even if we manage to get temperatures down to the 1.5 degree target.

Climate change is already having an impact on the healthcare system across the planet.  We will delve into what the potential impact could be in a changing climate on the health economy.  Also we need to look at what we can do to try to reduce the impact that the healthcare system has as the contributor of nearly 6% of the UK’s carbon emissions, accounting for 40% of the public sector’s emissions overall.

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About the Speaker

Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service. She has worked within the NHS for 10 years raising the awareness of the carbon emissions from the healthcare sector.  She is working to create the first zero emission front line ambulance service in the world here in Yorkshire.

She leads the Green Environmental Ambulance Network (GrEAN) and Leeds Anchors Sustainability Taskforce (for healthcare organisations).  She sits on the Leeds Climate Commission working to help Leeds drive down carbon emissions.  She launched the #NHS Climate Emergency in response to the climate crisis and works closely with the Health Declares an Emergency network.  She is also on committee for the Roundhay Environmental Action Project (REAP).