Air Quality Healthcare Hub

Our webinars provide opportunities for learning, building confidence and meeting other Champions who are delivering, or starting to deliver, air quality advice to patients. We will record sessions for those unable to attend live.

The webinars offer presentations from key air quality experts on particular topics such as gas cooking, domestic wood-burning and indoor air quality, which will build on the information introduced in the initial training session.

Webinar 1: Wednesday, 15th May 2024, 12-1pm
This webinar saw Southampton City Council launch the official Clean Air Champion Network, Global Action Plan tell us about Clean Air Day and how you can get involved, and a local clinician sharing first-hand expertise about incorporating air quality advice into consultations.
Catch up with Webinar 1 here.

Webinar 2: Wednesday, 17th July 2024, 12-1pm
Professor Stephen Holgate on Air Pollution as the greatest environmental risk to health in the UK. This webinar also includes an introduction to the Clean Air Routing Web-app for Southampton from the Tranquil City team.
Catch up with Webinar 2 here

Webinar 3: Wednesday, 18th September 2024, 12-1pm
This webinar focuses on how to support patients to maintain clean air at home in advance of another winter when many opt to limit heating (encouraging mould growth) or rely on burning wood to keep warm. We also hear from a GP delivering air quality training at her surgery.
Catch up with Webinar 3 here

Webinar 4: Wednesday, 13th November 2024, 12-1pm
We hear from Nicole Kearney, European Director of CLASP, on the health hazards of gas cooking. Nina Barratt, Programme Coordinator at Wessex Health Partners, introduces the Clean Air South Network.
Catch up with Webinar 4 here

Webinar 5: Wednesday, 8th January 2025, 12-1pm
Sign up to attend Webinar 5 or receive a recording here.

Webinar 6: Wednesday, 26th February 2025, 12-1pm
Details will be shared in due course

Our Champions WhatsApp Community is for Champions to chat, swap ideas and share good examples of engaging patients and colleagues with air quality topics.

To join, click here, using the device you’d like to join from, or scan the QR code.

Please note that your number will be visible to the other healthcare professionals who are part of the Champions’ Community.

Alternatively, email your phone number to cleanair@environmentcentre.com and we can add you directly.

We’re delighted to share with you Global Action Plan’s new air quality resources. These resources have been tailored for Southampton patients, following a co-design workshop with Southampton clinicians in January 2024.

Air pollution impacts us all
Air pollution affects you from your first breath to your last

Leaflet for adults
Leaflet for adults (easy-print)
Checklist for children
Checklist for children (easy-print)

The easy-print versions have both A5 sides on one A4 page to make it easier for you to print yourself.

The resources have also been translated into the following languages:

Arabic
Farsi
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Urdu

Please feel free to share these with patients and colleagues.

If you haven’t yet received hard copies, please email cleanair@environmentcentre.com with your preferred delivery address so we can get these to you.

You’re also very welcome to make use of the resources available on our wood burning page. Please find a small selection below. 

Help clean up Hampshire’s air (A5 leaflet)
Do you burn wood at home? (A5 leaflet)
Do you burn wood to keep warm? (A5 leaflet)

In addition to gathering feedback from Champions on how training and resources have improved their knowledge and understanding of air pollution, we would also like to gather feedback from patients.

During the first six months of the project, we aim to understand patients’ perceptions of air pollution following their conversations with health professionals.

We would really appreciate it if you’d share a short survey (five questions) with patients you’ve spoken to about air quality. There is no reference back to specific healthcare professionals, so please feel free to share!

The topics:

• Their understanding of indoor and outdoor air pollution.
• Their knowledge of how to reduce their exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution.
• Their confidence in taking action to reduce their exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution.
• Their intention to take actions to reduce exposure/contributions.
• Which action(s) they intend to take.

You can text or email the survey link to your patients after your consultation, or you could print out the handy QR code below to tape to your desk.

Direct link: https://forms.office.com/e/pRWcJnMBht
QR code

Once you’ve completed the Clean Air Champions training, we’d be most grateful if you could fill in our follow-up training survey. It should only take a couple of minutes to complete and your response will help us demonstrate how Champions are embedding the training into their practice, as well as any barriers you may have experienced in doing so.

This information will be invaluable in helping us evaluate the scheme for Southampton City Council, who commissioned it, and DEFRA, who funded it, and to help support future air quality interventions in the city.

This Guide to Protecting against Carbon Monoxide Poisoning offers healthcare professionals a summary of the outcomes of an All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group roundtable on Delivering Carbon Monoxide Safety.

It includes an introduction to the topic, how to address cases of CO poisoning and useful contacts for emergencies and further support.

The guide is published by cross-party think tank, Policy Connect.

You can watch the initial Clean Air Champions training session on the You Tube link below.

Clean Air Champion Training (youtube.com)

Download the supporting slides.

Please help us assess the training we’ve provided by completing this follow-up feedback form.

Clean Air Programme 2024 Conference
‘Analysis and Solutions: Responding to the Clean Air Challenge’
2nd – 3rd October 2024
Edgbaston Park Hotel Conference Centre, Birmingham

This conference will be addressing four overarching themes:

– The lifetime impact of air pollution
– Innovative developments driving impact
– From research to the real world
– The evolving clean air landscape