Climate Adaptation Framework for NHS organisations – Further Guidance
• If you are struggling to find information within your own team on severe weather events, you can request historic information on flooding from the Environment Agency: Find out if your property is in an area that has flooded. The Met Office also have a section on their website on past weather events: Past weather events – Met Office • Produce case studies and/or a short report describing the impacts and costs of severe weather events that have affected your organisation. Include a description of how and why these impacts and costs may be affected by projected changes in climate. Your local authority may have a Local Climate Impact Profile which could be used to support your report. UC2C Consider how your organisation’s functions or service areas might be affected by climate change Your organisation will have many functions that might be affected by climate change. To identify these you will need to engage with a diverse range of internal stakeholders to explore the connection between strategic and operational priorities and climate impacts.
Further guidance:
• Use the Adapt to Survive worksheet template (Tabs 3a and 3b) to consider how climate change might affect the functions listed in the NHS Business Impact Analysis Template • Interview a small number of key service managers or contacts in your organisation to identify links between the strategic and operational priorities of different services or functions and climate impacts. The interview will help identify how services are affected by current weather and climate impacts. Consider which critical functions appear most vulnerable to climate impacts. Alternatively you could hold a Climate Impact Assessment workshop with representatives from different departments/ services to share experience of the ways that climate impacts have affected your organisation.
Advanced Maturity Tasks UC3A Integrate climate risk into corporate risk register
Use your organisation’s risk registers (at corporate or service level) as a way to heighten awareness, consideration and action on climate adaptation.
Further guidance:
• Work with your organisation’s Risk Manager to define and embed climate risk within your risk register. • See whether any other organisations you work with (NHS or otherwise) have included climate risks within their risk register that you can learn from.
UC3B Undertake detailed climate change risk assessment
A climate change risk assessment is used to evaluate climate risks across your estates, infrastructure and operational services/ functions. This strategic ‘scan’ helps to understand the changing likelihood and consequence of a range of potential risks for your organisation. It enables you to prioritise climate risks, allowing you to better focus limited resources.
Authors: Sustainability West Midlands; Sniffer Partners: NHSE North East & Yorkshire, NHSE North West, NHS Greater Manchester
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