As the Met Office warns the UK is heading towards a heatwave this weekend, DAUK is encouraging people to access our website Our Health, Our Planet.
Our Health, Our Planet is full of information aimed at keeping people safe during extreme weather events.
It is the ultimate guide to the relationship between climate change and human health, particularly focussing on the health effects to the UK population.
Dr Matt Lee, sustainability lead for the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is the driving force behind the website.
He recently urged healthcare professionals to ‘be at the forefront of climate action’ in an editorial in the Future Healthcare Journal.
Dr Lee, who is also the deputy special adviser on climate change and healthcare sustainability to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), joined with Mark Harber, special adviser on climate change and healthcare sustainability to the RCP, for the editorial.
It was titled The climate crisis is a global health emergency: A call to arms.
“As physicians, we must understand that climate change is a health and humanitarian crisis that will impact most heavily on the poor and disposed, but very rapidly on all of us on a scale never seen before,” they said.
The authors added: “For the sake of our patients, healthcare professionals must be at the forefront of tackling climate change, demonstrating leadership through radical, systemic climate action to accelerate the decarbonisation process of the NHS, the wider UK, and influence a global transition to a safer, liveable future.”
Read The climate crisis is a global health emergency: A call to arms.
