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Emma Radcliffe
@emmrad.bsky.social
GP, climate activist and lots of other things
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A commitment to environmental sustainability and resilience in the 10 year health plan for England is welcome. The challenge is to make it happen.
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A commitment to environmental sustainability and resilience in the 10 year health plan for England is welcome. The challenge is to make it happen. - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
The 10 year health plan for England published this week includes a commitment to prioritise actions to deliver a net zero health service by 2040 for emissions the NHS controls and by 2045 for emission...
ukhealthalliance.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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.@GOVUK plans to introduce mandatory healthy sales reporting must go beyond healthy sales to include key health and sustainability criteria, include the split between plant and animal protein, fruit and veg sales and climate emissions. @eatingbetter.bsky.social
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Mandatory reporting must go beyond healthy sales - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change has joined with alliances representing 200 organisations calling for mandatory reporting to go beyond healthy sales to incorporate key health and sustainabilit...
ukhealthalliance.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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The NHS 10-Year Plan can be more than reform – it can be a blueprint for climate resilience in healthcare. Join us as we work to embed sustainability in every shift:
https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/why-sustainability-is-important-for-the-governments-three-big-shifts/
#NHS10YearPlan #NetZeroNHS
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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UKHACC Director @drelainemulcahy.bsky.social was delighted to help plant the @rcpch.bsky.social conference legacy tree in Glasgow this week! Many thanks to @glasgowcc.bsky.social and cllrs @marthawardrop.bsky.social & @seonadhoy.bsky.social for their support.
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We’re building a healthier, safer, fairer future. Now we need our MPs to stand with us.

🗓️ Join us in Westminster on 9 July
🗣️ Speak to your MP and tell them: This is what we’re doing – what about you?

Great to see UKHACC trustee @emmrad.bsky.social is the hero film www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgQ...
Act Now, Change Forever: Join us in Westminster on 9th July
YouTube video by The Climate Coalition
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June 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Just like health leaders once stood up to Big Tobacco and its advertising, it’s time to stand up to Big Oil! Join us and the 30+ influential organisations representing the interests of over 12 million health professionals worldwide to #BreakFossilFuelInfluence
⚡LAUNCHED! #BreakFossilFuelInfluence. We call on health orgs to cut ties with PR & ad agencies that serve fossil fuel industry.
✍️ Join 30+ influential health orgs that signed #FossilFreeCommunications commitment
💡Discover simple & powerful step to align your voice with value.
bit.ly/3H7VzkY
May 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Outstanding work @rcphysicians.bsky.social 👏
We’ve published our first sustainability report card.

Based on @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social’s commitments, the report card provides a progress update on our current and future work to improve our environmental sustainability as an organisation.

Read now: ow.ly/qNIF50VSFRQ
June 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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This #GreatBigGreenWeek, we're celebrating the brilliant work happening across UKHACC members to embed sustainability in everything our members from governance and education to banking, investments, travel, and food.

📢 Find out more about this work here
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Our commitments - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
We’ve produced a set of guiding principles for health organisations to demonstrate leadership and take steps to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
ukhealthalliance.org
June 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The June edition of our popular monthly bulletin is out with
📰News
🔉Have your say
👫Get involved
💻Events
📑Reports
🧑‍💻Media
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UKHACC June Bulletin - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
Monthly edition of the UKHACC bulletin with the latest news, opportunities to get involved and have your say, events and reports
ukhealthalliance.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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New @UKHealthClimate report calls for action to ensure the health service is resilient to climate change:
💰 Sustainable funding
🏥 Resilient infrastructure
👩‍⚕️ Workforce training
📡 Disease surveillance
🧠 Research + planning

🔗 ukhealthalliance.org/sustainable-...
Building a Climate-Resilient Health System in the UK - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
A policy report by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
ukhealthalliance.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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A new report by @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social calls for urgent action to adapt our health system to climate change – with 49% of NHS workers saying services have already been disrupted by extreme weather.

Read the report here: ukhealthalliance.org/sustainable-...

#ClimateHealth #NHS #HealthEquity
Building a Climate-Resilient Health System in the UK - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
A policy report by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
ukhealthalliance.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Today is Clean Air Day.

A new policy report published by @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social makes recommendations on how to build a climate resilient health system to protect health now and for future generations ukhealthalliance.org/sustainable-...
June 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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As heat health alerts are issued across many parts of the country today, we welcome timely new guidance from @acutemedicine.bsky.social to support health professionals management of patients during extreme heat - check out the Heat Health Plan here >> www.acutemedicine.org.uk/blog/2025/06...
Hot Weather Health Plan (11 June) - Society for Acute Medicine
The Society for Acute Medicine has produced the following guidance to supportclinicians working in acute services to:
www.acutemedicine.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The Tate Modern art museum in London has also been lit up. #ShowYourStripes

And, the warming stripes are currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York: www.moma.org/magazine/art...
June 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Today is #ShowYourStripes Day!

Created by @edhawkins.org, the warming stripes show temperature each year: blue for cool, white for avg, red for hot.

Athletes are wearing them, knitters are knitting them, and cities are putting them on trams.

Find + share your "stripes" here: showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Air pollution affects your health from before your first breath until your last. By cleaning up our air, we can all live healthier lives 🩹

This #CleanAirDay, ask your MP to champion ambitious action on air pollution ⬇️

www.cleanairhub.org.uk/clean-air-day
@globalactionplan.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Today, UKHACC Chair @richardswsmith.bsky.social and trustees @sanmather.bsky.social @emmrad.bsky.social walked with health professionals to deliver a message to the UK government to set safe targets to clean up the air we breathe >> ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/he...

@globalactionplan.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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So grateful to all our members for an excellent meeting yesterday, and to Jim Skea, Chair of @ipcc.bsky.social for talking us through the working groups and reports - health will be an important consideration to integrate @richardswsmith.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Congratulations RCGP and @victoriatb.bsky.social for producing a great resource on greener prescribing www.rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/f50...
@greenerpractice.bsky.social @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
www.rcgp.org.uk
March 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Register now for updates on the latest news and campaigns from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, and how you can support them.
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March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Articles, podcasts and videos including a brilliant new image collection by @climatevisuals.bsky.social showcasing impacts and solutions of energy and the cost of living crisis. climateoutreach.org/a-new-collec...
A new collection of energy images - Climate Outreach
Climate Visuals and The Sunrise Project, funded by ECF, have launched a new collection of images showing the impacts of the energy and cost of living crises, alongside the solutions being put into pra...
climateoutreach.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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LOADS of new resources and a special mention for this brilliant work by NHS Scotland and @naturescot.bsky.social to bring together health, environment and other sectors to embed Scotland’s natural health service in every day aspects of the NHS www.nature.scot/doc/realisin...
Realising the Potential of Scotland's Natural Health Service in Practice
A Report on Piloting of Green Health Partnerships.
www.nature.scot
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Lots of opportunities for learning in our events section, including this conference on connecting people on climate action by the @fphuk.bsky.social on 9 May - still time to submit your abstract www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
FPH Climate and Health Conference: connecting for action on climate change
The need for urgent and effective action on climate change across the public health workforce is ever more pressing. With this in mind, the FPH Sustainable Development SIG invites all public health co...
www.fph.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Get involved in some great campaigns like the Climate Coalition’s Show the Love - Submit a photo of a space you love to be part of a collaborative artwork celebrating cherished places. Then, share it with #ShowTheLove2025 thepeoplespicture.com/projects-sho... 💚
thepeoplespicture.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Lots of opportunities to have your say including a chance to add your name to the @who.int call from the health community to world leaders and decision makers to stop pollution and ensure a future with clean air for all www.who.int/teams/enviro...
Call for clean air action
www.who.int
March 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM