Climate Adaptation Framework for NHS organisations – Further Guidance
• 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 and training to be included.
Intermediate Maturity Tasks UC2A Develop understanding of climate risk and vulnerability
Risk and vulnerability are key concepts for understanding the potential impacts of climate change on your organisation. To inform robust decision-making these need to be understood in your specific context, including the climate hazards most relevant to your location, and the specific vulnerabilities of communities you work with – including patients, staff and other service users.
Further guidance:
• Climate change will disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities. Learn about climate justice and consider how your organisation should respond: Who is vulnerable? | Climate Just
• Use the Local Climate Adaptation Tool (lcat.uk) to identify the climate and social
vulnerability trends affecting the area(s) where your organisation operates. You may also want to use the SHAPE – Shape (shapeatlas.net) tool to support mapping vulnerabilities. Local health data may also be used to help inform your understanding of local vulnerabilities.
UC2B Record the impact of recent weather events on your organisation
Your organisation will have been affected by recent weather events. Recording the consequences of specific events with colleagues is a way to explore climate-related vulnerabilities in more depth. Even where specific data cannot be identified, interviewing or discussing with colleagues builds a picture of the sort of impacts we can expect and can be useful narratives for raising awareness, as well as some providing initial evidence of potential costs.
Further guidance:
• Collate evidence on how the severe weather event(s) that you identified have impacted your organisation. Potential sources of information could come from areas such as your EPRR colleagues and could include: o overheating and flooding data submitted to Estate Returns Information Collection (ERIC) reporting
o SWEP (Severe Weather Emergency Protocol) records,
Insurance Claims Logs
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Repair and maintenance reports
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o engagement with Local Resilience Forums (LRFs)
o Anecdotal events flagged up through interviews and workshops held with colleagues ( UC2B ).
Authors: Sustainability West Midlands; Sniffer Partners: NHSE North East & Yorkshire, NHSE North West, NHS Greater Manchester
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