{"id":1224,"date":"2024-03-17T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/we-need-to-recognise-the-gravity-of-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T11:05:50","slug":"we-need-to-recognise-the-gravity-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/we-need-to-recognise-the-gravity-of-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We need to recognise the gravity of the climate crisis’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has encouraged the General Medical Council (GMC) ‘to take more of a leading role’ in the work to combat climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Matt Lee, DAUK sustainability lead, reiterated the United Nations’ concerns that climate change is the ‘greatest threat to our health’ and that protesting on its own does not pose a threat to patient safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, he urged the GMC to ‘take into account the gravity of the crisis’ when considering tribunals for doctors due to climate activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was commenting after the Guardian highlighted the case of retired GP Dr Sarah Benn<\/a>, who faces a professional tribunal by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Benn is one of three GPs <\/strong>who face being struck off for climate activism this year, reported the Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Lee said: “DAUK is watching closely the progress of Dr Sarah Benn’s tribunal in April, as well as the planned tribunals for other doctors referred to the GMC due to climate activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We strongly believe in the right to protest and do not feel that participating in protesting alone poses any threat to patient safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We understand that the default following a criminal conviction is referral to the MPTS for review and tribunal but strongly encourage the GMC to take into account the gravity of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We also strongly encourage the GMC to consider whether these individuals pose a threat to patient safety, or whether they should in fact be considered as patient safety champions for speaking out against inaction on the greatest threat to our health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Additionally, we strongly encourage the GMC themselves to take more of a leading role in campaigning against climate change and fighting to safeguard all of our futures.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has encouraged the General Medical Council (GMC) ‘to take more of a leading role’ in the work to combat climate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,65,58],"tags":[651,652,38,605,116],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-dauk","tag-dr-matthew-lee","tag-gmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}