"Climate change is the cholera of our era" said Muir Gray writing in the Times on Monday 25th May. He suggested that "just as doctors led the Victorian campaign, so the medical…
A collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, resulting in the first UCL Lancet Commission report, setting out how climate change over the coming decades could have a…
We are delighted to have made a fantastic appointment to the new Green Nephrology Fellowship in Andrew Connor, who is due to take up post in September 09. Andrew is currently working as an SpR in…
Efficiency is dead, that’s official. The word has been hijacked by crunch-drunk politicians and now means cutting the public sector payroll. So we need a new word for real efficiency,…
For a few months now, I've been hearing reports of green activity inside the British Medical Association. They are certainly not blowing their own trumpet, and a thorough scan of their website turned…
We are coordinating a project to plant 1.3 million trees in the UK with the staff and patients of the NHS. The project, currently in a pilot phase, will offer patients and relatives the opportunity to…
On 2nd April 2009 The Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (MFETG) won the Corporate Social Responsibility category at the BMJ Group Awards. The work of the MFETG is groundbreaking, and its success…
The UK Public Health Association’s 17th Annual Public Health Forum (Brighton Centre 25th and 26th march 2009) is majoring on the impacts of climate change on human health. And it has identified Carbon…
Applications opened on Tuesday to the groundbreaking one-year Green Nephrology Fellowship, funded by NHS Kidney Care. The first of its kind, the post is open to specialist trainees in renal medicine,…
"Sacked executive can argue he was discriminated against because of his belief in climate change, judge rules. An Executive sacked from a giant property company can claim he was unfairly dismissed…