Sustainable in Healthcare Conference
“From Ambition to Action: The Road to Sustainable Healthcare!” Under this title, the NFU and NVZ are organizing a conference on sustainability in healthcare on Sustainable Tuesday, September 3, 2024.
With the conference, they aim to inspire and challenge each other by sharing successful ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ initiatives. They want to harness the collective brainpower of those present to accelerate the sustainability of hospital care together.”
At the conference, they have invited inspiring speakers from healthcare practice, policy, and management, including Nicole Hunfeld, Project Boardmember from ESCH-R, among others. Nicole will speak at the plenary section of the program at 13.40 till 14.00: “Bringing Knowledge Development into Practice | From Green Deal to Practice”.
The program
Morning Program – Informing, Inspiring, and Challenging Each Other
| 09.00-09.30 | Arrival |
| 09.30-10.00 | Opening by Bertine Lahuis (Vice Chair NFU) and Ad Melkert (Chair NVZ) |
| 10.00-10.40 | From Vision to Action | Inspiring pitches from various perspectives: – Young Generation of Healthcare Providers | Femke van de Zant – Research | Lex Burdorf – Patient Care, OR Assistant | Talitha Hoppe – Patient Care, FMS | Jelle Ruurda – Education | Noortje Campman |
| 10.40-11.10 | Greening Healthcare: The NHS Example | Hiten Patel | Head of Strategy, Greener NHS, England |
| 11.10-11.40 | Break |
| 11.40-12.35 | Greening Healthcare: A Critical View of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches Short presentations by executives: – Hans van Goudoever | Amsterdam UMC – Paulina Snijders | UMC Groningen – Edwin van der Meer | BovenIJ Hospital – Jurgen Sernee | NWZ Panel discussion with the National Network for Green OR, the Green IC, the Patient Federation, and the professional association for Nurses and Caregivers (V&VN) |
| 12.35-12.45 | Presentation of the Jeroen Meijerink Award for Green Leadership |
| 12.45-13.40 | Lunch |
Afternoon Program – Achieving Green Deal Objectives Together
| 13.40-14.00 | Bringing Knowledge Development into Practice | Plenary From Green Deal to Practice | Hayke Veldman and Nicole Hunfeld |
| 14.00-16.15 | Green Deal 3.0: Five Working Sessions for Sustainable Healthcare For each theme, we will formulate concrete steps to achieve our goals. The themes are: – Promoting Health – Raising Awareness and Knowledge – Reducing CO2 Emissions from Transport – Working Circularly and Economically with Resources and Materials – Reducing the Environmental Impact of Medication (Use) |
| 16.15-17.00 | Bringing it All Together: Results and Connections from the Working Sessions | Plenary |
| 17.00-18.00 | Networking Drinks |
Read more about the congress (in Dutch).
