Is It a Failure of System Thinking Again?

Hospitals are feeling the pinch on rising energy bills. It's just blown their budgets apart and that will have impacts on clinical services. I actually make a political issue out of this is how are you supposed to run a system when your energy bills quadruple? The biggest single threat to human health is fossil fuel air pollution. One in eight people get killed in that year. So all these things are linked together. But we don't think about that. How often does the Department of Health really talk to the, well, hopefully the new Department of Net Zero and energy security)? They're running out of people to put in that now. Imagine being the Tory MP that hasn't been a