NHS Forest Conference 2026 – Nature at the Heart of Sustainable Healthcare
This year the NHS Forest Conference will be examining evidence and experience of the impact green spaces have on healthcare sites. The day will include three sessions alongside a keynote and the annual NHS Forest Awards:
- Impact on health, wellbeing and care – communities, staff, patients
- Impact on the ground – practical delivery
- Making the case – sharing evidence, investment and the future
Tickets are £5 or email info@nhsforest.org for a free ticket. We are a charity and money raised from the tickets supports our Green Space for Health programme so please consider buying a ticket if you can. The event is online.
We are very pleased to be welcoming Dr Radha Modgil back as the chair again this year.
The keynote speaker will be Jinny Blom.
Speakers include:
- Gareth Howatson – Natural Health Service Co-ordinator, Mersey Forest
- Dr Jordan Tsigarides – Senior Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology (Cambridge University Hospitals) and Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia
- Graham Pike – Lead Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) nurse and Deputy Director of IPC at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as well as coordinator for the Infection Prevention Society sustainability group
- Isabela Souza – Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) consultant for the Healthy by Nature programme will be speaking with CSH Nature Recovery Ranger Dr Duika Burges Watson
- Ian Stenton, Head of Estates Sustainability at NHS England
- Heather Jones – PhD, RN Nurse educator
- Penny Marno – Senior Specialist (Health), Natural England
- Katie Storey – Assistant Sustainability Manager at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Robert Graham from Bright Charity
- CSH Senior Nature Recovery Ranger, Lucy Kennedy and colleagues from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Adam Jackson and Graham White
Tickets are £5 or email info@nhsforest.org for a free ticket. We are a charity and money raised from the tickets supports our Green Space for Health programme so please consider buying a ticket if you can.
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