HOPE Agora 2023
Welcome
Programme and PowerPoint Presentations
Participants & hosts reports
DATE AND LOCATION
2 June – 4 June 2023
Hotel DoubleTree by Hilton Brussels City
Rue Gineste 3,
1210 Brussels
Belgium
TOPIC
Climate and Environment: Challenges for Hospitals and Healthcare Services
ABOUT
The theme for HOPE Agora 2023 is “Climate and Environment: Challenges for Hospitals and Healthcare Services”.
Climate and environment changes have profound impacts on human health due to an increasing air pollution, reduced food and water supply and quality, and more frequent and extreme weather events. Hospitals and healthcare services are strongly affected by these changes and have to develop resilience, by making adaptational changes.
HOPE Agora 2023 will focus on the other side of the coin: the impact hospitals and healthcare services have on the climate and the environment. This may stem from different sources such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical chemicals and gases, buildings, transports, textiles, food and energy.
In a context of accelerating global climate change and increasingly complex health systems, the ability for healthcare services to reduce their environmental impact is crucial to ensure a continuity of quality care in the future.
The conference will first host experts presenting different approaches at local, regional and national level. Then the HOPE Exchange Programme participants will bring back their learning following a four-week experience abroad. They are asked to identify up to three good practices, at national, regional and local level on how the healthcare sector is trying to reduce its impact on the climate and the environment.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
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To discuss the challenges hospitals and healthcare services pose for the climate and the environment;
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To understand different approaches in monitoring this impact in European countries;
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To exchange practical experiences on how healthcare organisations are reducing this impact.
Read the HOPE Agora 2023 Theme Guidance Document
A HOPE report gathering information around the topic of Health in Environment and Climate Adaptation Policies Report-Health-in-Environment-and-Climate-Adaptation-Policies
HOPE Agora 2023 Leaflet
Additional resource:
“Twelve factors supporting transfer of learning after participating in the HOPE Exchange Programme“, Bertil Selde Krogh, National HOPE Coordinator for Denmark.
Previous HOPE Agora & topics
Programme
The HOPE Agora 2023 took place from 2 to 4 June.
Please find below the detailed programme of the event and the powerpoint presentations:
Day 1 – Friday, 2 June 2023
10.00 – 14.00 Registration
14:30 – 14:35 Opening of the HOPE Agora 2023
Chair of the day: Urmas Sule, President of HOPE
PowerPoint HOPE Agora 2023
Video message from Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius
European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
Link to the video
AGORA 2023 TOPIC: Climate and Environment: Challenges for Hospitals and Healthcare Services
14:35 – 14:50 The vision of European Doctors
Format: Presentation
Presenter: Sarada Das, Secretary General, CPME (Standing Committee of European Doctors)
Duration: 15 minutes
Presentation Sarada Das
14:50 – 15:05 The vision of a national Federation
Format: Presentation
Support public hospitals initiatives and involvement for ecological transition
Presenter: Rudy Chouvel, French Hospital Federation
Duration: 15 minutes
Presentation Rudy Chouvel
15:05 – 15:20 The vision of a regional Federation
Format: Presentation
Moving forward in Berlin – climate protection strategy for the German capital
Presenter: Marc Schreiner, Berlin Hospitals Association
Duration: 15 minutes
Presentation Marc Schreiner
15:20 – 15:30 The vision of a National Health Service
Format: Presentation
Presenter: Mehreen Kassam, NHS England
Duration: 10 minutes
Presentation Mehreen Kassam
15:30 – 16:00 Panel discussion
Format: Audience engagement through live polling (using mobile devices) and Q&A
Chair: Eva Weinreich-Jensen, immediate HOPE past-President
Panellists:
– Sarada Das, Secretary General, CPME
– Rudy Chouvel, French Hospital Federation
– Marc Schreiner, Berlin Hospitals Association
– Mehreen Kassam, NHS England
Duration: 30 minutes
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 Presentation of good practices in the HOPE Exchange Programme participating countries, Part 1
1. Malta
2. The Netherlands
3. Poland
4. Latvia
5. Belgium
6. France
19.00 – 21.00 Welcome reception
Day 2 – Saturday, 3 June 2023
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome
Chair of the day: Eamonn Fitzgerald, Vice-President of HOPE
9:30 – 11.00 Presentation of good practices in the HOPE Exchange Programme participating countries, Part 2
7. Italy
8. Switzerland
9. Germany
10. Denmark
11. Estonia
12. Sweden
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13.00 World Café
Chair of the session: Laurie Andrieu
(the PowerPoint of the World Café is integrated to “PowerPoint HOPE Agora 2023″)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Presentation of good practices in the HOPE Exchange Programme participating countries, Part 3
13. Austria
14. United Kingdom
15. Greece
16. Ireland
17. Spain
18. Portugal
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 Meetings by country of origin
20:00 Conference dinner
HOPE Agora 2023 agenda in PDF
Participants and hosts Reports Material
Download Form P3 – Questionnaire for the participants’ reports
Download Form H2 – Questionnaire for the hosts after the Exchange Programme