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Hospital Food
Every year, the NHS spends about £600 million on food and catering services, mostly in hospitals. But hospital food is often considered to be of poor quality, and the hospital retail environment unhealthy. There is an urgent need to improve the quality of hospital food for patients, visitors and staff to make it more healthy…
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Farming and Antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing global public health threat, that requires urgent and co-ordinated action across all sectors. Whilst most of the focus has been on human use of antibiotics, there is now “compelling” scientific evidence that antibiotic resistance is being transmitted from farm animals to humans. Yet the overuse of these medications in…
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Fracking
“The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting fracking” – Quote from an open letter in the BMJ in support of Medact’s report on Health and Fracking: the impacts & opportunity costs. Fracking is a term used to describe the process of…
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Sustainable Food Systems in Undergraduate Education
“…health professionals need to become well informed about the dangers posed by global environmental change to the health of those they serve and the potential for health co-benefits from policies to prevent damage to natural systems.” Lancet commission on planetary health 2015 While most undergraduate clinical training includes some curricula about diet, nutrition and climate…
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Sustainable Diets
“What, and how much we eat directly affects what, and how much is produced. We therefore need to consume more “sustainable diets” – diets that have lower environmental impacts, and are healthier.” Garnett 2014 In the UK we are consuming more than our fair share of food and therefore natural resources. We have developed a…