Last week at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting I proposed that the BMA declare a climate emergency and campaign for carbon neutrality by 2030. The motion was passed overwhelmingly into […]
Climate change
The NHS must behave as an environmental anchor to mitigate the impacts of climate change
The NHS is one of the UK”s biggest contributors to climate change, and top down reform is too slow, but clinical staff can kick start change, say Nada Al-Hadithy and […]
The healthcare community needs to champion healthy and sustainable urban living spaces
We need to look beyond disease and individual sector silos and take into account the potential of the social and built environment to both prevent disease, and also contribute to […]
Alex Armitage: We must act now to prevent air pollution deaths in the UK
Last week I received an email from Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust providing notification of travel disruption on Friday 14th June: “Our security lead… has been notified by the […]
Let’s make sure that doctors are heard to speak out on climate change
School children have taken to the street again today to protest against climate change. Hundreds of thousands of young people are estimated to have taken part in today’s school climate […]
Richard Smith: Everybody should read The Uninhabitable Earth
Everybody reading The Uninhabitable Earth could literally (the correct use of a usually misused word) save the planet, says Richard Smith The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells is the only […]
Kate Bernard: Why medical students are joining the rebellion on climate change
On 12 April 2019 Alex Armitage wrote a powerful piece for BMJ Opinion on “Extinction Rebellion”, the environmental activist group which has been hitting our headlines for the past few weeks. […]
Alex Armitage: We have just 11 years to avert ecological and social disaster
Next week from the 15 April Extinction Rebellion activists hope to close down Central London to prompt a radical change of direction in our national conversation: away from Brexit and […]
We all have a role to play in cleaning up our air, just as we do in acting on climate change
Public Health England have recently released a new report which provides practical advice and measures to help local authorities reduce air pollution and its impacts on public health. It is […]
Gretchen Goldman: Trump pulls a page from industry’s disinformation playbook
By denying science, the Trump administration is putting lives at risk, says Gretchen Goldman […]