Northern England Sustainability and Health Network Mike Gent

Northern England Sustainability and Health Network Mike Gent Janet King Ghazala Ahmad-Mear Peter Roderick

‘A network of sub-national and local leads across the health, care and public health systems link local champions, networks, and examples of good practice. This accelerates system-wide progress and supports implementation at a local level. This group identifies and shares best practice, innovation and learning locally both across and between local and sub-national networks. It provides an important communication channel between local action and national policy, facilitating a timely and effective spreading of best practice’ Sustainable Development Strategy for the Health and Social Care System 2014 -2020

Where are they? North Region Sustainability & Health Network Chair: Pam Warhurst Leads: Mike Gent, PHE; Janet King, NHS West Midlands Sustainability & Public Health Network Leads: Sustainability West Midlands; Nigel Smith, PHE South Region Sustainability & Health Network (SRSHN) Leads: James Mapstone, PHE; Nigel Acheson, NHS East Midlands Sustainability & Health Network Lead: Anne Pridgeon, PHE East of England Regional Sustainability Network Leads: Linda Cox, Gill Lee, NHS London network Leads: Kathie Binysh, NHS; Marc Beveridge, PHE

Goal 1: Foundations Google group: 120 members – updates, consultations, best practice, research etc Steering group: 10 members – strategy and planning events Masterclasses: Procurement masterclass, Leeds, November 2017 Academic/research collaboration, Leeds May 2017 Sustainable Development Conference, Darlington November 2016 Building climate resilience in health and social care, July 2016 Network building event, Alder Hey, November 2015 First conference, June 2015 Upcoming: Digital healthcare and sustainability (Manchester) Food, sustainability, health and social care (Liverpool)

Goal 2: Influence • • • PHE-UCLAN-Leeds Beckett NHS greening research project Work with West Yorkshire Combined Authority on greenspace strategy Academic work on Leeds LEZ and WY transport strategy (Climate, 2017) Response to national consultations e. g. Clean Growth, AQ Presentations on sustainable development to e. g. WY STP Letters written to NHS CEOs on SDMP reporting Sharing best practice in SMDPs and GCC/SDAT Case studies on SDU website Sp. R work o Lancet letter o Briefing pack for Ds. PH (healthy sustainable economies)

Goal 3: Action Introducing…. The North Health & Care Sustainable Development Ambassador Programme #North. HCSDA Aims: Counter loneliness and the “Lone voice in the wilderness” syndrome Create a local network within their sphere of influence (usually workplace) Help to build a movement Reframe the challenge: positive and “can do” Demonstrate change (however small) is possible YCMAD

Movements for systems change This stuff is a little bit like educational levels. Understanding climate change and sustainable development doesn’t take much; school-level stuff maybe. Dreaming up snazzy technological ideas to tackle climate change is kinda university stuff… but creating social movements that help to solve global environmental challenges (peacefully); well that’s Nobel laureate territory. David Pencheon, Healthy City Design Conference 2017 Leadership, especially leadership on behalf of social change, often requires telling a new public story, or adapting an old one: a story of self, a story of us, and a story of now. A story of self communicates the values that move us to lead. A story of us communicates values shared by those whom you hope to motivate to join us. And a story of now communicates the urgent challenge to those values that demands action now. Marshall Ganz, Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power

A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice The NHS is a ‘class of organization which faces decision situations involving unclear goals, unclear technology, and fluid participants’. This requires leaders who can: • • • carefully time issue creation be sensitive to shifting interests and involvement of participants recognise the status and power implications of choice situations abandon initiatives that get hopeless entangled with others realize that planning is largely symbolic, but a convenient excuse for interaction Cohen et al, 1972

Programme details: • • • Sponsored by NHS E, PHE, NHSI and LA. Funded through PHE centres Ambassador in each STP area working in clinical or managerial roles in HSC or PH Basic understanding and passion for SD, commitment to programme Open recruitment in November 2017, advertised through letter to STP SROs and cascaded The successful cohort (19 individuals) come from a great variety of backgrounds: General Practitioner LA Consultant in PH Mental Health Nursing network lead PHE Programme Manager Hospital Pharmacist Transformation Programme Director, STP area Head of Environmental Sustainability, Acute trust Chief Operating Officer, AHSN LA Public Health practitioner Environment/Sustainability manager, ambulance service Public Health Sp. R Sustainability Manager NHS Digital Director of Urgent Care, acute trust MH integration lead, vanguard Consultant paramedic Consultant ENT surgeon Energy and Sustainability officer, acute trust Head of Sustainability and Compliance, acute trust Clinical Lead for Mental Health, CCG

2 3 = region-wide roles STP Areas 5 2 4 1 2

Programme Design Launch event Online Action Learning Circles Healthcare Leadership Model Sustain Event 21 st March April July September November NHS Leadership academy model – validated tool Learning Project ‘graduation’ Inspiration: the story of Incredible VIA strengths model Practical Q+A sessions Facilitated by trainer 360 feedback and then reflection on findings Forming Learning sets Individual Projects Faculty Support Dissemination Maintenance

Opportunities Join google group Participate in Google Group! Attend masterclasses Collaborate (e. g. procurement sub group, HOTT tool, SDAT) Next round of ambassadors Procurement sub group Run a seminar/masterclass/symposium/hackday/innovation thingummy for us