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Doctor informed - sustainability isn’t just waste management

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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The NHS Is a Corporation, Isn't It?

Sustainability shouldn't be about individual actions, it should be about social decisions. I don't think as a junior doctor before now, I'd really thought that I could make a difference to the health system. And through that role that I have in the organization, I have a small amount of power that I can use to influence what the organization does. It's really hard, because when you try and change anything, there's a thousand different voices in that decision - but we have to be a voice for sustainability. There will be doctors who are listening to this thinking,. Like, I've just finished 70 hour week, I'm exhausted. What can I possibly do at this point to

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