Climate Adaptation Framework for NHS organisations – Further Guidance
Further guidance:
• Identify opportunities to progress adaptation with people, functions and projects. Use the knowledge gained from OC1A to identify immediate opportunities to engage and influence adaptation work across functions. • Use formal and informal meetings, events and workshops to talk about adaptation and communicate the need for and benefits of adaptation for your organisation. This includes everything from informal one to one discussions through to more formal presentations and awareness raising workshops. The Adapt to Survive resource includes useful background information which could be used to inform presentations or workshops. • Identify opportunities to include adaptation in staff training and/or inductions to raise adaptation awareness and build capacity. Find out how climate change and adaptation is currently covered in staff inductions and training and identify opportunities for new resources/ training to be included.
OC2C: Establish governance arrangements for adaptation
Setting up governance arrangements for adaptation is essential to enable effective decision- making and collaborative delivery across your organisation. Seek approval for an option that works for your organisation – and is able to deliver your adaptation objectives. This could be a new group, or expanding an existing Board’s remit to include adaptation. Good governance will provide oversight for a work programme and define roles and responsibilities for function leads.
Further guidance:
• Identify where adaptation leadership and governance currently sit within your organisation. Identify the role and remit of any groups with responsibility for adaptation, for example Business Continuity or EPRR teams. • Identify whether new/ additional governance arrangements are required to increase progress with adaptation. • Create a short report/ briefing setting out options for governance arrangements and seek agreement to implement the preferred option.
• Where a new group is to be established:
o Develop draft terms of reference that will be finalised once group members have been confirmed, Identify a chair for the group, Create a list of potential participants and issue invitations to join the group
• Where adaptation is to be added to the remit of an existing group:
o Agree alternations to the existing terms of reference to include adaptation, Review membership of the group to identify whether the group includes sufficient knowledge/ influence over adaptation. Request additional group members if representation / knowledge of adaptation needs to be strengthened.
Authors: Sustainability West Midlands; Sniffer Partners: NHSE North East & Yorkshire, NHSE North West, NHS Greater Manchester
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