Climate Adaptation Framework for NHS organisations – Further Guidance
Intermediate Maturity Tasks OC2A: Secure resources to plan and deliver adaptation
Your organisation will need committed resources – human, physical, financial, information and intellectual – to progress with adaptation. You need to secure those needed for short-term activities but also look ahead at likely future needs. Consider both internal and external sources, including funding which could be accessed by linking to other policy areas such as net-zero, biodiversity, wellbeing.
Further guidance:
• Increase your understanding of internal budget and investment cycles
o Identify lead in times and business cases requirements for annual and multi annual budget allocations.
o Clearly define the short term adaptation activities that require resourcing.
• Estimate the resources (for example staff time, funding, access to technical expertise) required to deliver the activity. o Identify whether there are existing resources ( OC1B ) that could be allocated to deliver some or all of the activity, where there is a resource gap identify a budget holder/ funder who may be able to resource the activity and find out about the procedure for submitting a budget request. • Build a business case to resource the activity. The business case for these types of activities is usually built around a clear strategic case linked to organisational priorities ( OC1A ) and/or legislative requirements ( PI1C see Planning and Implementation). You can access guidance on developing a Business Case here:
o NHS England: General business case process guidance
o The Green Book: appraisal and evaluation in central government
• Identify opportunities to share resources, benefit from in-kind support and reduce duplication of effort. Find out if partner organisations – including other NHS organisations ( WT2A see Working Together) – are planning to carry out similar adaptation activities and explore opportunities to share resources such as data, technical expertise or staff time. • For further guidance on Funding Options, see guidance in Adapt to Survive – Sustainability West Midlands OC2B: Engage with colleagues to identify adaptation opportunities across functions Your organisation will (or could) be delivering adaptation through many of its functions or service areas. By actively engaging colleagues across your organisation you can identify opportunities to include adaptation in planned work – as well as identifying key teams to lead on specific actions.
Authors: Sustainability West Midlands; Sniffer Partners: NHSE North East & Yorkshire, NHSE North West, NHS Greater Manchester
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