Climate change

About the climate change team

Climate change has rightly become an increasingly important feature in our everyday lives. We are all affected by it and, health and social care contribute significantly towards causing it.

We aspire to be a leader in the delivery of environmentally sustainable health and social care through increased investment, mitigation and culture change throughout our system. Big Ambition number 9 of the Partnership is, “We aspire to be a leader in the delivery of environmentally sustainable health and social care through increased investment, mitigation and culture change throughout our system.”

The team works to raise awareness of our contribution to climate change and ways in which we need to change in order to deal with the effects. We focus on building capacity through networking and education as well as providing expertise.

The drivers of climate change are also the drivers of ill health and health inequalities - we cannot be healthy if our biosphere is poisoned. Together, we need to prepare for the changes that are already taking place and that will intensify in the future. Climate affects all the determinants of health and wellbeing in our communities.

To reduce our environmental impact, everyone working and volunteering in health and social care in West Yorkshire needs to act. By bringing networks of professionals together across the partnership, we enable sharing of information, best practice, problem solving and resources. This is working well in many professions such as pharmacy, primary care and with sustainability leads across the health and care sector. We also play a role in creating strategy for the partnership as well as potential actions for organisations to deliver.

You can also find more resources, details about our involvement activities, examples of our work and case studies covering climate change on our our Improving Population Health Programme pages including:

• publications and resources
• involvement
• our work