On demand webinar: Greener respiratory healthcare: Exploring the impact of air quality and respiratory health
This webinar looks the relationship between air quality and respiratory conditions and what action healthcare professionals can take to tackle this.
The environment and air quality has a considerable impact on people with respiratory conditions and the symptoms they experience. In turn, respiratory conditions, and the medication which treats them, adds considerably to the NHS carbon footprint. Part of the PCRS Greener Respiratory Healthcare Campaign, this webinar aims to support understanding of this relationship and provide primary care healthcare professionals with the information and practical action they need to improve it.
In this webinar, chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), she, Sally Jones (Environment Manager from Bradford District Council) and Ian Sinha (Consultation Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Hospital) discuss the impact and relationship of the environment, air quality and respiratory conditions. This webinar:
- supports understanding of the environment and air quality and their relationship with respiratory symptoms and care,
- highlights the benefit of working to address and improve this, and
- provides healthcare professionals with practical action they can take to improve respiratory care and outcomes for their patients, as well as provide greener respiratory healthcare at the same time.
Speakers
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Katherine Hickman
Katherine qualified from Leeds University in 2000. She originally did a Medicine Rotation acquiring her MRCP before settling into General Practice. She is a GP Partner in Bradford. Katherine is the Respiratory Lead for West Yorkshire ICB, Primary Care Clinical Lead for the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP), and Chair of PCRS. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, baking, yoga, and outdoor swimming and has recently rediscovered her love for singing and joined a choir. -
Sally Jones
Sally Jones has worked at Bradford Council for 22 years in air quality management and more recently, the development of the Bradford Clean Air Plan, plan implementation and managing the evaluation of the plan once implemented. Sally has over 25 years’ experience in local air quality management. After many years contributing to building the evidence base for air quality action through health research Sally has now specialised in implementing interventions to provide tangible air pollution reduction with a focus on maximum public health improvement. Sally has studied Environmental Chemistry at Leeds University and is a registered public health practitioner. -
Ian Sinha
Ian is a paediatrician with particular interest in asthma and newborn lung disease, based at Alder Hey. :
- honorary professor of child health , University of Liverpool
- Co-Chief Investigator, ASYMPTOMATIC RCT
-National respiratory audit program CYP lead
-NHSE NW asthma CYP lead
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