Fiona Godlee: Confessions of a climate criminal
TweetI’ve been outed. Not for my exotic sexual preferences, sadly, but for being a climate hypocrite. A West Coast operation called Medgadget has set up a website tracking my travels – they’ve so far...
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Fiona Godlee: Why we’ve joined 10:10
Tweet I’ve just signed up, on behalf of the BMJ Group, to a commitment to cut our carbon footprint by 10% by the end of 2010. For more information on the 10:10 campaign, go to 1010uk.org. It was quite...
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Tejshri Shah on scrapping healthcare fees in developing countries
Tweet A group of doctors warned last week that if climate change is not effectively tackled we all face a health catastrophe. What they did not say is that the catastrophe is already here for millions...
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David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve
TweetIf the health service takes environmental, social and economic sustainability seriously, it is amazing how many co-benefits there are – for the health of individuals, for the health of the...
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Tony Waterston on a health movement at the Wave
Tweet At the weekend we attended the most profound and moving event for health progress that we can remember. This took place at the Royal College of Nursing – founded in 1916 in the middle of the most...
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David Pencheon: Not waving but talking
Tweet You may be aware that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), BMJ Editor-in-Chief Fiona Godlee, and the Campaign for Greener Healthcare hosted a meeting of health professionals at the RCN on Saturday...
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Stephen Ginn on energy use in hospitals
TweetAccording to a recent article in the Guardian newspaper I’ve worked in the two most polluting buildings in the UK. Over the course of one year the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel was...
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Tony Waterston on climate change and maternal and child health
Tweet Connecting four countries by video on a Friday afternoon could be an exercise in technological disaster But with obstetricians, midwives, and paediatricians present at the delivery, a safe and...
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David Pencheon: Saving money can save lives and improve quality, if we know...
TweetIt’s easy to say that the NHS should do better, not more – but what does that actually mean? Well, it means investing resources (money, people, buildings…) in healthcare which delivers outcomes...
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David Pencheon: Moral offset
TweetI try to maintain my sanity, like many of us, by rationalising my own behaviour and trying to make sense of the world around me. I get to sleep at night by maintaining the likely myth that I have...
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Sarah Walpole: from medic to media – on the health effects of Tar Sands
TweetSeeing the call for medics to attend this year’s Camp for Climate Action, I was keen to lend support for a worthy cause. I’m usually a reluctant responder when it comes to calls for a doctor in...
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Juliet Dobson on eating animals
TweetOn Wednesday night at the London School of Economics, US novelist Jonathan Safran Foer took part in a discussion about his latest book, Eating Animals, as part of the Forum for European...
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Richard Smith: Can the NHS become environmentally sustainable?
Tweet“We live in a world of competing sorrows,” said Daniel Moynihan, the US senator. We also live in a world of competing agendas, and the NHS has to think about saving money, increasing productivity,...
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