2026 Webinar: Sustainable Geriatric Medicine

We will also be joined by Peter May who will give the perspective on how the national Greener NHS team are helping to decarbonise the NHS.

We know that older people are particularly at risk of the health impacts of climate breakdown. However, healthcare itself accounts for more than 4% of the UK carbon footprint. We will explore where the biggest environmental impacts of geriatric medicine come from.  We will then discuss how we can adapt our services to provide high quality, low-carbon care for older people.  

We welcome questions from the audience and will have time to answer some of these in the final part of the webinar.

Speakers:

Peter May:  Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager, Greener NHS National Programme

Florence Wedmore: Co-chair BGS Sustainability Working Group; ST5 Geriatric Medicine Registrar, London; former Chief Sustainability Officer's Clinical Fellow

Moderator: Prof Rowan Harwood, Co-chair BGS Sustainability working group,  Professor of Palliative and End-of-life care in the University of Nottingham, and recently retired Consultant Geriatrician. 

Who should join:

• All professionals providing healthcare to older people

Aims:

• Improve attendees' skills in the urgent care of frail older people
• Inspire attendees to achieve personal excellence in the urgent healthcare of older people
• Share focused best practice presentations and the latest research in urgent care of older people
• Takeaway new activities and ideas to advance attendees' workplace services