Richard Hixson Email & Phone Number

Darlington, England, United Kingdom

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine.

Darlington, England, United Kingdom

I have volunteered to Lead CDDFT's sustainability work as there is a huge need to start acting on both a local and national level.

In July of 2020, Proteus Ocean Group unveiled its plans to build PROTEUS™, the world’s most advanced underwater research station. PROTEUS™ is an ocean observatory and research platform that will enable scientists, innovators, and global customers to search for and reveal solutions to our planet’s most critical concerns, including new medicinal discoveries, food sustainability, and the impacts of climate change.​The habitat will include the use of hydroponics, allowing inhabitants to grow fresh plant life for food, marking a unique approach to address challenges that come with underwater living, such as not being allowed to cook with open flames. The habitat will be sustainably powered by hybrid sources including wind and solar, and will include a full-scale video production facility to provide continuous live streaming for educational programming.

United Kingdom

The overriding objectives of the UK National Ocean Decade Committee are to: inspire engagement across the UK to deliver the societal outcomes of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (“UN Ocean Decade”); promote and enable the development and delivery of transformational science that delivers the societal outcomes of the UN Ocean Decade; and to promote and enable a whole of society approach to the UN Ocean Decade.

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Awarded to support the work of Healthcare Ocean.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health comprehensively examines plastics’ impacts across their life cycle on: (1) human health and well-being; (2) the global environment, especially the ocean; (3) the economy; and (4) vulnerable populations—the poor, minorities, and the world’s children. On the basis of this examination, the Commission offers science-based recommendations designed to support development of a Global Plastics Treaty, protect human health, and save lives.

England, United Kingdom

The NHS Sustainable Procurement Forum (SPF) brings together experts in the fields of environmental sustainability and healthcare from the wider NHS, Supply Chain, sustainability leads, clinical, estates leads and procurement, to support the implementation of sustainable procurement delivery across the NHS including the net zero ambition.

Global

An organisation which aims to conserve and protect coastal and marine ecosystems through minimising harm resulting from the procurement and delivery of healthcare whilst increasing awareness of the benefits to human health and wellbeing from healthy seas, coasts, and waterways.

Northallerton, England, United Kingdom

Golden-Haze Ltd is the company behind the development of CPDmatch - matching the Continuing Professional Development needs of healthcare professionals with relevant, accessible and affordable educational opportunities.

Assessors have the key role of assessing each Continuing Professional Development (CPD) application to the standards specified by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and awarding the appropriate number of CPD credits.

England

The Clinical Entrepreneur Programme is a workforce development programme for clinical and non-clinical NHS staff, run by NHS England’s Innovation, Research and Life Sciences group and delivered jointly with Anglia Ruskin University. The programme welcomes applications from a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals with an interest in entrepreneurship and innovation.

County Durham And Darlington Nhs Foundation Trust

8+ years of post-graduate training undertaken in anaesthesia and critical care.