Educating current and future healthcare professionals on evidence-based sustainable medicine
Creamer, Katharine Gray, William K Briggs, Tim John, Joseph B
Creamer, Katharine
Gray, William K
Briggs, Tim
John, Joseph B
Abstract
Increasing recognition of the need to deliver environmentally sustainable healthcare has led to much new research in this field. Many studies now estimate a 'carbon footprint' of an area of healthcare and often go on to highlight potential ways that emissions can be reduced. Before changing their own clinical practice, healthcare professionals must be educated on the methodology and potential for biases of studies in this area. Here, we discuss the general approaches to carbon footprinting, highlight key considerations and suggest future steps which will enable clinicians to deliver evidence-based sustainable medicine.
MIDER Authors
Affiliations
Getting It Right First Time, NHS England, London; South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Date
2026-06-11
Type
Article
Subject
Collections
Citation
Creamer K, Gray WK, Tso S, Briggs T, John JB. Educating current and future healthcare professionals on evidence-based sustainable medicine. Clin Med (Lond). 2026 Jun 11;26(5):100606. doi: 10.1016/j.clinme.2026.100606. Epub ahead of print.
Journal / Source Title
PMID
Publisher
Publisher’s URL
Publisher’s statement
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.