{"id":1030,"date":"2022-08-28T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T06:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-sustainability-lead-dr-matthew-lee-on-the-impact-on-hospitals-following-rise-in-energy-bills\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T06:33:23","slug":"dauk-sustainability-lead-dr-matthew-lee-on-the-impact-on-hospitals-following-rise-in-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-sustainability-lead-dr-matthew-lee-on-the-impact-on-hospitals-following-rise-in-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK Sustainability lead Dr Matthew Lee on the impact on hospitals following rise in energy bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Ofgem\u2019s announcement that the energy price cap for consumers will rise by 80 per cent, frontline doctors have warned that hospitals will be facing a surge of extra patient. \n\nDr Matthew Lee, sustainability lead at DAUK, said to i News: \u201cHospitals and Trusts will be bracing themselves alongside the majority of British people who are facing a fuel and cost of living crisis. The impact will be felt hardest by the already burnt-out staff working in an already broken system.\n\n\u201cWith members of the public likely self-rationing their energy use, we will face an increase in hospital admissions due to chest infections from cold, damp housing, severe life-threatening hypothermia, and cold-related accidents from more destructive weather events due to climate change.\n\n\u201cThere are clear solutions to this crisis that have sadly been ignored for over a decade. Many hospital buildings are outdated and have not had energy efficiency upgrades. Installing insulation, triple glazed windows and solar panels are all quick and cost-effective ways of massively reducing the running costs of hospitals and homes. We need to urgently act on a national scale to prevent further energy crises, cut our carbon emissions, and ultimately save lives.\u201d\n\nRead the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/social-care-faces-collapse-soaring-energy-prices-costs-1818853\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Ofgem\u2019s announcement that the energy price cap for consumers will rise by 80 per cent, frontline doctors have warned that hospitals will be facing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}