{"id":1390,"date":"2025-06-10T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/spending-review-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:03:08","slug":"spending-review-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/spending-review-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending review: Do not ignore the impact of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK&#8217;s sustainability lead has urged the Government not to ignore the impact of climate change on human health and the NHS when it sets out its spending review.\r\n\r\nDr Matt Lee was contributing to a feature in the i Paper on what frontline NHS staff want to see from Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday.\r\n\r\nA resident doctor based in Wales, Dr Lee said: \u201cThe 2022 heatwaves claimed more than 3,000 lives in the UK, but little thought was given to the tens of thousands of increased hospital attendances, the sweltering, unsafe working conditions, or the infrastructure meltdowns such as at Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 [where IT systems were knocked out \u2013 leading to operations being cancelled].\r\n\r\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/uk-heat-related-deaths-soar-climate-change-2800646?srsltid=AfmBOopurSyHFqdQJO_hCCoSEU8uqG0ZrCezpm5lPcFKrd9Ny0en4Meb&amp;ico=in-line_link\">Predictions of upwards of 10,000 excess deaths every year <\/a>due to heat within the next 25 years do not take into account the vast increases in healthcare workload and dangerous working conditions experienced during these periods,\u201d he added.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/we-work-in-the-nhs-this-is-why-its-broken-and-how-to-fix-it-3738567\">Read the feature in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFrontline doctors run DAUK for frontline doctors.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK&#8217;s sustainability lead has urged the Government not to ignore the impact of climate change on human health and the NHS when it sets out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,65],"tags":[652,680,698],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-dauk-news","tag-climate-crisis","tag-dr-matt-lee","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}