Today @uclh launches our #NetZero strategy Critical Care for Our Climate. Health care is responsible for over 4% of global emissions. The NHS can lead the world with low carbon care models, indeed its already starting to happen. https://t.co/IdoaCi0QWe

Visited Hospital de Sant Pau. Breathtaking art nouveau hospital in Barcelona. Incredible and window into 1920s medicine and earliest net zero hospital, powered on geothermal from 400 wells each 100 deep. Wow

On a 285 km/hr train to Barcelona for a health conference where am speaking about innovation and also climate action. Wonderful experience, comfy, fast WIFI, good catering. So much nicer than flying! Just over £46 each way. So much cheaper than UK trains too!

Great to speak at #KFAnnual Conf on #Climate & our work @uclh. Serious stuff but there is hope, as we have the solutions. Good climate strategy does not run against finance, tech or quality, but harnesses them. This is an area NHS can lead the world & build green economic growth

CAR-T cell therapy is one of the biggest breakthrough cancer treatments in recent years. Proud that @uclh is trialing its use for multiple sclerosis for the first time. Extraordinary science and fascinating development for autoimmune conditions https://t.co/evadjnIfai

Exhausted but elated after incredible week rethinking clinic letters for the modern era. Brought GPs, @uclh staff, patients together for a huge push. The time, safety challenges, cost & impact on GP & hospital staff is vast. 9 key solutions, 1 worked up prototype & we’re done ✔️

Excited to start our clinic letter sprint today with patients, GPs, @uclh clinicians, techies and administrators. Letters have a massive role, safety critical, hugely expensive and time consuming. Major challenges outlined today, so looking forward to what we can do about it

On wards today @uclh - remarkable clinical skills & v complex patients. ⬆️ role for generalists - Ward round strategy key, but not standardised - many reasons for discharge delays - disposable curtains are v hard to draw - scrubs pockets are too small &📱falls out

Stunning and much welcome good news!

Our Gloves Off campaign promotes hand hygiene while reducing unnecessary glove use. Since its launch, we purchased 2.75M fewer gloves in 2024 compared with 2023, saving 27 tonnes of carbon - that's the equivalent of driving 3 times around the equator! #ZeroWasteWeek #greenerNHS💚

Technological progress and green policies have dramatically shrunk the average westerner’s carbon footprint over recent decades. Countries like France and the UK have steeply reduced their overall emissions even as populations have climbed.

Important to spread hope. People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours… https://t.co/sgjOda2GZU

The rise of YouTube shorts in the last year is mind blowing. Up to 200 billion daily views or 1% of human waking hours. This should make us pause and wonder if the lauded productivity gains from AI tech will be simply be offset by increasingly effective tech distractions

Great #FestivalofExcellence hearing superb improvement work @uclh. I talked about quality, & why spending more ≠ better outcomes. Gave 3 case studies which show drive quality ⬆️ then cost ⬇️ (hip surgery, gloves off, clinic letters). Complexity the enemy of reliability & quality

Person centred care at it's best! Our team working across services to enable one of our young, severely needle phobic patients to get the vaccinations he needed to visit his family abroad for the first time. (Spoiler alert: solution was vax when under general for his dental work)

BIG STORY which brings hope! China's emissions are dropping for the first time! This really matters as China has more than a third of global emissions. Wow. https://t.co/Acluq453na #ClimateAction

It’s quite incredible what @uclh staff do for our patients. Take outpatients, where last year we did over 1.4m appointments up about 100k on the year before. Some weeks we saw 30,000 patients. The NHS is under huge pressure but the work of our staff is just remarkable

Excited to share our new research on UK midwives’ attitudes to: ⚠️ environmental & occupational N2O emissions from Entonox® ⚠️ @uclh @robertcraig123 @Jamesocarroll @peteodor @GreenerNHS @IJOA_Journal What are your thoughts? #nitrousoxide #netzero 💚 https://t.co/rKIzuk7fYM

Great to have the Chinese Health Minister come to see first-hand what we are doing @uclh on sustainability. The Chinese Government is responsible for the largest hospital sector in the world, so discussing net zero is important. Minister was full of praise for our staff’s work

Great to see @uclh scoring highly in the staff survey across the board. Strong results on staff engagement too, which really matters in itself, but is also linked to better outcomes including mortality, lower staff sickness and productivity.

Sat in on a superb @uclh ENT clinic today trialing ambient AI to write notes/letters - patients & clinicians happy - shifts doc from writer to proof reader - saves time but justifies £? - incredibly complex case worked well - no idea why send letters every time, even if AI helps