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All right, thank you. Hello, hi, welcome everybody. Thank you so much for inviting me to just come and say hi today. And I'm Catherine Morgan and I'm Chief nurse at ES Nest. Um I rejoined the organization in the summer um having spent four years in working in the region as um chief nurse. Um And so I was really pleased to be able to start to engage on this agenda. And when Becca, um and Liam spoke to me and said, actually, we're, we're holding a conference and we really want to start building momentum and get some real clinic uh clinician engagement on this agenda. What can we do? So I thought that's really exciting because I'm not a subject matter expert clearly. Um However, I've got a leadership role to start to articulate how as a clinical team, we start to think about sustainability and what our contribution might be as, as professionals. So, whilst I was in NHS England, I had the opportunity working with our then um chief nursing Officer for England. She was developing her um nursing and midwifery strategy um and an articulated sort of um kind of key areas of strategic direction for the professions under PS. There were the seven PS now our Chief nursing officer in England has changed. So the strategy didn't get launched. However, one of those PS was um planet and I was the um taskforce chair on the sustainability um area. And so it started to engage my brain as a profession about how we could really make a difference. Then if I started to sort of think about what that looked like. And I still think when um Duncan Burton launches his strategy, there will inevitably be a really um key theme around sustainability. And whether it's a seven PS or not, doesn't matter, but there will be something around sustainability and what our professional contribution is. And hopefully we might actually have a nursing midwifery. Now, I think that's a professional strategy. That would be wonderful. So, so what's my role here in Es Nest? Will I start to need to, I need to think about our strategic direction. And last week we had um a board of directors meeting. Um and we had a presentation on our responsibilities as an anchor institution and we started to articulate some of the contributions we were making as an organization under um environment. And we II took that opportunity to have a discussion about. Actually, there is so much more we could do if we started to think about the opportunities for front line clinicians and what that might look like and how we could engage in this agenda. And really, you know, we articulated a board quite a lot around um things like travel plan and our contributions, sort of, you know, reducing carbon footprint, et cetera. But we've done less on um you know, smaller, small, like the as Rose has articulated some of the small chain, big differences and what we could start to do on that. And there was, there was a really good discussion about board, how, how we might start to think about that. Um Through the work that um I was doing with NHS England, we were really thinking about how we make this um relevant to clinicians who have clearly, you know, we are, we are overwhelmed enough on a day to day basis about everything that's got to be done um to think about something else. So it's about how we really factor it in, isn't it to everyday um everyday life, everyday opportunities um and make it easy to do the right thing as was talking about and, and the, the plan nationally then was thinking about really just having some key areas to focus on initially. Um like wound care management, gloves off and continence management, for example. So, so certain key areas, but there are, but there are obviously lots of opportunities building a network within our local um sort of system as well in um NHS England, there are opportunities there around the East of it conference last year to start to hear clinical teams talk about some of the initiatives that they've taken forward. So absolutely not duplicating and learning from others is really critical because small, small projects and how you might scale those up um are really key. And so I was talking to be and Lynn about how, how do we engage clinical work that how people are really interested in this agenda, but it can't be an additional burden. So we need to think about perhaps, you know, whether we have sustainability champions of a network of people, really think about some of those straightforward opportunities. I know that we're going to launch relaunch Gloves Off campaign pandemic has done something terrible to PPE management, hasn't it? I think we've forgotten all the principles around IPC. Um and just gone to more is more as opposed to less is more and actually more effective. So I think there's some, there's some opportunities there about some key messages that we can share. But I think for here at ESF that, you know, it's going to be absolutely essential that we make it really front and center very visible in our strategic direction about how we link that really to. What does that mean for me, my job every day. Um because strategy in big picture can be a bit while it's so big, isn't it? Um Rose articulated? I don't even know where to start. So I think it's really how, how do we connect that and of course, a lot of the work we're doing and the direction, you know, kind of really, really focusing on prevention, population health management and how we get that kind of circle with the sustainability and the impact on on health is, is also um really important to, to articulate. So I think looking at our professional strategy in the organization, we'll be seeing how we can articulate what that means for us, how we can really make it visible and start to talk about the things that we want to take forward. I was also, I'm also um involved in the um national um updated Nutrition and hydration Policy and chairing that group as well. And they're about to come out with the new um policy. Well, hopefully after an engagement phase and it was, it was very um it was really pleasing to, to sort of hear all the discussions around um how sustainability need to factor into all policy development going forward and how critical it is to, to make it kind of, you know, integral to everything and, and just being part of that group, um as I was hearing earlier, you know, really reflected on, on the work that is going on, that is making um sustainability so integral to everything. So I think, you know, as a chief nurse, that's kind of where I'm coming from, really think that, you know, as absolutely part of the future need to articulate it so that it's really clear at board what our responsibility is. But most importantly, people working every day understand what their contribution is and we need to make it easy to do the right thing. So be working to think about what that looks like. And we're thinking about how we might do. Um you know, perhaps engage sustainability champions. I'd love to get some more clinical teams um involved in terms of having protected time for this agenda as well. So we need to think about that and I know it always comes with the one that costs some money. Well, it does, but my God, if we did things right on the sustainability agenda, wouldn't we be more productive and efficient? So I think it's going to be um really how we kind of articulate that and what that means. So I think that will be an opportunity for us as well. You know, there are national job descriptions around sustainability, clinical leadership as well that we might be able to take opportunity to, to use in our organization. So that's all I had to say, no side or anything like that. I just wanted to say hi and how, how important I think this agenda is and what see what I can do to stop. So does not have electric charges for, I do not. Currently, there is a government plan with funding for big organizations to install that. So maybe we need to get that funding. And so do you believe it's in the travel plan. We have it in IPs, but not enough in Ipswich. They are working half of the time, which is appropriate. I don't have an electric car. So that's why I was gonna let you know. So when we ask people to get electric cars, we should make it easy for them. So that's one thing. Second thing, we do not have whole food in this hospital and they will buy, you know, ultra processed food from, you know, from subs. The UK is the second country in the world for processed food consumption. At 55 of 7%. That's below the U US at 58%. Everything is ed in plastic. So that's another uh low we can.