Including Adaptation in your Green Plan
A summary of the very high priority actions from your adaptation plan This space is an opportunity for you to provide an overview of the main actions you are currently focussed on carrying out to progress your adaptation work. These come from the section ‘Adaptation Action Plan’ in the Adaptation Plan Template. If you do not yet have a plan or actions, you could include here the very high priority impacts you feel are the biggest risk to you and therefore need addressing. Other guidance throughout the green plan related to adaptation A few things that the Green Plan Guidance provided by GreenerNHS asks for have been touched on in the Adaptation Plan Template as they are related to adaptation. There are:
“pertinent demographic and socioeconomic details of the local populations served.”
If you have maps with demographic and socioeconomic information that are relevant to your risk assessment and adaptation plan, you can include these here. “What specific improvements would most benefit your local communities, staff and the overall organisation?” This is very relevant to your adaptation plan, as knowing the areas that are most at risk from climate change and adapting to these can support communities in being safer and healthier, and support your sites to be more resilient.
“Sustainable models of care”
In the Adaptation Plan Template, it is explained that a truly sustainable model of care should include considering opportunities for adaptation in the way care is delivered. Governance details “operation of sustainability committees and working groups; development of online sustainability training and pledge platforms for staff; and investment in specific staff to support sustainability goals.” If you already have governance for adaptation in place, then you can include details of this in a governance section of the Green Plan Guidance. The Adaptation Plan Template also suggests that you consider including details of any appraisal processes you have in the governance section of your Green Plan (in general or within adaptation). By appraisal, the template is referring to including your reasoning for the actions you have chosen. “if you set out an appraisal process (formal or informal), this can be a good way to justify your planning and to help others within and outside your organisation to do their own appraisal”. Linking the information in your Green Plan to other NHS themes and policies. One way to achieve this could be to create a table that shows different themes and the relevant policies and strategies you have (internally and beyond). The Adaptation Plan Template has a full example, below is a taster:
Authors: Sustainability West Midlands, Sniffer Partners: NHSE North East & Yorkshire, NHSE North West, NHS Greater Manchester
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