SPEAKERS:
Dr Rob Shorten, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, and Katharine Hayden, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Manchester Foundation Trust, both representing the Association for Laboratory Medicine (as a note we changed the name of our Association earlier in 2024 from the Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine).
OVERVIEW:
This lecture will outline the importance of the climate emergency and its consequences for the planet and health. It will detail the role that healthcare, and in particular diagnostic laboratories plays in contributing to the carbon footprint. Challenges, and opportunities of how laboratory services can contribute to making patient pathways more environmentally sustainable will be explored.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand how the climate crisis is also a health crisis.
- Understand how laboratories contribute to the climate crisis.
- Understand how laboratories can reduce their carbon footprints.