Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
GPs 'should offer climate change advice to patients'
Doctors should give patients advice on climate change, a leading body of medical experts has claimed.
Nick Britten
Published: 11:53AM GMT 29 Nov 2009
The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health.
Their controversial plan would see GPs and nurses give out advice to their patients on how to lower their carbon footprint.
The Council believes that climate change threatens to radically undermine the health of all peoples.
It believes health professionals are ideally placed to promote change because we have ethical responsibility ..as well as the capacity to influence people and our political representatives to take the necessary action....
