Better prepared for 'extreme events'

Kristen Guida, chair of directors and co-founder of Climate UK, a not-for-profit community interest company and a national network of 12 climate change partnerships in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, discusses improving resilience planning, to enable estates teams in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to be better prepared to deal with, and mitigate the effects of, flooding and other severe weather events. She highlights a number of useful guidance publications and information sources on the subject, discusses recent research, and focusses on where key lessons may be learned from past experience.