Dr. Pencheon is the founder and ex-director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (England) which today coordinates the world’s most ambitious initiative to make healthcare sustainable. He helped to found the Unit in April 2008 and has been the author of innumerable leading academic reports, articles, book chapters, and a book on sustainable healthcare. In 2012 he was awarded an order of the British Empire award for services to public health and the NHS. Today he is an associate and honorary professor at the University of Exeter.
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00:00 Intro
07:34 Healthcare and Climate Change
10:25 COVID-19
19:31 Bi-directional impact
27:27 Clinical vs. systemic change
32:05 Clinical Audits
36:38 Triple-bottom line
41:58 Kuznets Hypothesis
47:11 Medical ethics
53:46 Outro: making change
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