It can feel daunting to bring up complex issues with patients around carbon emissions and the climate crisis. How can this be fitted in with everything else during a consultation? […]
Climate change
Building back better with a National Nature Service
“Even with all our medical technologies, we cannot have well humans on a sick planet”—Thomas Berry As 2020 threw us into a world of social distancing, health services had to […]
What can clinicians say to patients who ask about climate change?
We talk to patients about the perils of smoking, but are we ready to talk to patients about the more dangerous perils of climate change? Many health professionals will baulk […]
The health community must act on air pollution as an issue of health justice
On Wednesday 16 December 2020, air pollution was recorded as a cause of death for the first time, following a second inquest into the death of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in […]
Aarti Bansal and Grant Blashki: Six steps to both greener and better primary care
Most primary care clinicians are well aware that the climate crisis is a health crisis and of the immediate and significant health co-benefits of climate action, such as through reduced […]
Alistair Wardrope: Putting health and climate justice at the heart of COP 26
Climate breakdown, “the greatest threat to global health of the 21st century” is driven by the same political and economic systems that are exacerbating health inequities, so starkly amplified by […]
Matthew Sawyer: Why all health professionals should be carbon literate and practise sustainably
As a GP my training has equipped me with the skills needed to prevent ill health, diagnose illnesses, provide treatment, care for the sick, and hold the hands of the […]
Our children face “pretraumatic stress” from worries about climate change
Children are particularly vulnerable to the psychological trauma from current extreme weather events. They can also be harmed by the fear of future harms, writes Lise Van Susteren. Adults have […]
Making healthcare cleaner and more sustainable after covid-19
Crises are an opportunity to interrogate what really matters. The covid-19 pandemic is no exception. There has been considerable debate about possible causal relationships between capitalism and inequalities, environmental damage […]
Nicky Philpott: Ending the NHS’s contribution to the climate emergency
I met a climate refugee the other day—a woman who had lost her home in the wildfires in California. She was forced to leave her community because she could no […]