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Dr Tamsin Ellis, a GP in London and co-chair of Greener Practice, explains practical steps practices and clinicians can take to help tackle the climate crisis – and the benefits for GPs, staff and patients of doing so.
We need national guidance for clinicians on the inclusion of air pollution on death certificates, argue Laura-Jane Smith, Mike Tomson, and Kath Brown Air pollution is often framed as a modern problem, but as early as Roman times it was understood that polluted air affects human health. In AD 61, Seneca wrote of Rome “No sooner had I left behind the oppressive atmosphere of the city and that reek of smoking cookers … than I noticed the change in my condition.”1 In AD 535, emperor Justinian declared clean air a right of all humans: “By the law of nature these things are common to mankind...
The Pharmaceutical Journal from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
The General Medical Council’s (GMC) updated guidance, Good Medical Practice , is a disappointing missed opportunity to embed sustainability as a core focus of medical practice. Following extensive consultation, which received more than 4,600 responses from across health professionals, patients and carers, the updated guidance includes very little reference to sustainability. Two duties have been added under a new heading on managing resources effectively and sustainably. This does not go far enough. The climate crisis is a health emergency, and health workers have a duty to be educated, info...
An open letter signed by health leaders calls on UK prime minister Rishi Sunak to withdraw the decision to approve new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea Dear prime minister, We write to you as an alliance of health leaders who are deeply concerned about the impact that climate change and nature loss are having on human health, and to urge you to withdraw the decision to issue new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. Health workers are already seeing the consequences of ill health caused by high temperatures, extreme weather, and pollution. For example, more than 3000 excess deat...