About PEACCH Healthcare Adaptation
PEACCH - a Project to Embed Adaptation to Climate Change in Healthcare - is a collaboration between partners from Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development, Anglia Ruskin University and NHS practitioners.
Together, we want to raise awareness not only of the need to adapt, but also to provide practical steps that healthcare managers and practitioners can take to adapt their environments and practices to the main physical climate risks facing UK health systems.
Aligned with the recently adopted NHS Climate Adaptation Framework (https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/a-climate-adaptation-framework-for-nhs-organisations-in-england/) and building on research outputs from Life Resystal research project (https://life-resystal.eu/), PEACCH delivered a series of 4 webinars, designed to help healthcare staff take adaptation-positive action, that complements the Net-Zero agenda and addresses the physical challenges of climate change in the UK health sector.
The PEACCH Project Report is available here:
Project Partners
PEACCH is an interdisciplinary effort, and involves researchers from social sciences and engineering, alongside convenors and NHS practitioners working together to drive forward and enable more climate adaptation within the healthcare sector. Key project partners are:
- Louise Elstow, Assistant Teaching Professor in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.
- Federica Pascale, Associate Professor of Sustainable Built Environment at Anglia Ruskin University.
- Alexis Percival, Environmental and Sustainability Manager, Yorkshire Ambulance Trust
- Jim Cook, Associate Director Emergency Preparedness Resilience & Response (EPRR), Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS)
- Peter Lefort,'Adaptation' and 'Scope 3' Communities of Practice Convenor, Green Futures Network, Exeter University