An outline schedule for a one-day meeting

Please note this event is invitation only

Aim
To explore the carbon consequences of modern cancer care
Objectives
1. To define the carbon implications of modern cancer care
2. To identify important areas in which knowledge is lacking
3. To generate an action plan with timescales

Background
If we accept that cancer care, like all healthcare, should be effective at improving health status compared to no care, it also follows that within a system of finite resource that care should be delivered as efficiently as possible. The one component of cost that is not currently being accounted for is that of carbon.

Because carbon is a finite energy resource, and because of carbon capping to minimise climate change, it follows that this component of cost is set to rise. Indeed, it has been predicted that at some point in the not-too-distant future that the carbon expenditure associated with healthcare delivery may well be the principal determinant of rationing, either directly or as a result of the costs that result.

Cancer care in most cases conforms to a chronic disease model of care that is characterised by periods of activity that are interspersed by long periods of remission or stable disease. It has been estimated that the life-time risk of receiving a cancer diagnosis is about 1 in 3. If an ageing population wish to be looked after as well as they can be on receipt of a cancer diagnosis at a time when there are increasing pressures on the healthcare expenditure it follows that cancer care needs to be designed and configured in a manner that is as sustainable as possible. This one-day workshop is about finding out ways in which this might be possible.
 

10.00  REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10.30  Welcome Message Sir Robert Naylor

SESSION ONE: CONTEXT  Chaired by Mark Emberton/Muir Gray

10.35 Climate change – health and doctors Hugh Montgomery

10.45 UCLH, 10:10 – sustainable hospital / actions for today Trevor Payne

10.55 Green specialties – lessons from nephrology Frances Mortimer

11.05 Discussion

11.20 COFFEE

SESSION TWO: SUSTAINABLE CANCER CARE  Chaired by Mark Emberton/Muir Gray

11.35 “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed” – case studies from cancer care

•  Cancer prevention and sustainable living
• Cancer as a chronic disease
• Systems – Bristol chemotherapy at home: carbon footprint study
• Systems - minimising procurement – re-designing prostate cancer care
• Designing a low carbon Proton Beam facility
• Reducing the carbon costs of cancer trials
• Sustainable Survivorship

12.15 Discussion

12.30 LUNCH

SESSION THREE: CANCER CARE 2030  Chaired by Mark Emberton/Muir Gray

13.15 Workshops: designing a low carbon cancer service for:

• Urology (group leader – Mark Emberton)
• Breast (group leader – Clive Griffith)
• Lung (group leader – Mark Slade)
• Head & neck (group leader – Chris Alcock)

14.05 Feed back

14.30 COFFEE

14.45 Next steps (interactive session)  Muir Gray & Fiona Head (tbc)

• Organisations / commissioning
• Professionals / training

15.30 Agree statement from the meeting Frances Mortimer

15.45 Close Sir Peter Dixon
 

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY

For enquiries please contact frances.mortimer@kintoa.org