NHS efforts in England to mitigate the climate crisis: uniting nurses and gastroenterologists

The National Health Service’s net-zero ambition For the majority of those working in the National Health Service (NHS—the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system), the passing of the Health and Care Act 2022 in the UK would have barely registered as a blip on their radar. But hidden amidst the usual proposals for reorganisation, this Act included a more far-reaching ambition: the NHS’s commitment to net zero. With this passing of the Act, the NHS became the first health service in the world to embed such a commitment into legislation.1 Every NHS institution is now required to have a strategy, with board-level involvement, to deliver a net-zero health service by 2045. Capital investment required to meet this ambition is expected to total £7.7 billion (US$9.6 billion) over a decade. Over the last 2 years alone, £800 million has been invested by the NHS in the installation of solar panels, heat...
Source: Gut - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Editor's choice, Gut Commentary Source Type: research