First, Do No Harm - Creating a Net Zero Healthcare Service

The requirement to provide people with the best possible healthcare must be balanced with ensuring clinical practices and healthcare systems are sustainable and minimise our energy use. In this lecture Helen will present the connections between health and the environment and what is being done to reduce healthcare’s resource footprint.

Helen is an award-winning Electro-Mechanical Power Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in both academia and industry.

Helen founded The Care Machine Ltd in 2018 to provide innovative technology solutions, business management and training to medtech start-ups, SMEs and Researchers. She is passionate about ensuring that technology is at the forefront of healthcare provision and has worked with a number of leading universities and companies to develop medtech products and services. Helen has several high-profile clients including the NHS, where she was responsible for recruiting over 1000 engineers to support the NHS Clinical Engineering services at Nightingale hospitals across the UK at the start of the Covid outbreak.

Helen is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine, the Women’s Engineering Society and is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

She is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Durham University Business School, a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Healthcare Policy Topic Group, Vice-Chair of the SBRI healthcare competition funding panel and a Health Foundation Q-Community member.