Problem spaceWhat we prescribe saves lives, but how we prescribe damages the planet. Healthcare accounts for approximately 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and across health systems…
The hospital trust I work for has recently announced plans to widely implement AI ambient voice technology (AVT). Many of us have concerns from a clinical, educational and data governance perspective,…
A recent paper (Jia et al. European Radiology (2026) 36:2186–2197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-025-12023-z) looks at the emissions caused by medical imaging data storage. Although data storage is…
Here are a couple of useful resources for benchmarking carbon emissions. The Lancet has recently published Lancet MedZero which promises to be a very useful website. Its focus is not currently…
Update: Thank you so very much to everyone who got in touch and expressed an interest in being part of this study - we are now fully booked!**************We still have a few slots for interviews for…
Last week, members of the Healthy Air Coalition staged a protest in Parliament Square, calling on the government to write a new Clean Air Act. 98.7% of people in England live in areas exceeding WHO…
Last year a consortium led by J R of the Masaryk University in Czechia with 4 other partner organisations including ECRIN, University College Cork, the University of Nicosia and Universidade Nova de…
Two recent papers — one inLancet Oncology (Bryant et al., 2024) and one inLancet Planetary Health (Malmberg et al., 2024) — have looked at the environmental impact of how we prescribe checkpoint…
I received some communication (see below post) from a company that sells sustainable baby wipes (I have no conflict of interest with the company).Just wondering if there have been pieces of work…