BMJ  2008;336 (28 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.a529

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Climate change: our new responsibility

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With a week to go before the NHS is 60, let’s look at some real outcomes. In the penultimate article of his series (doi: 10.1136/bmj.a385), Tony Delamothe asks how the NHS scores on patient satisfaction, mortality, and overall performance compared with other countries—surprisingly well, it seems—and Nick Timmins hears from the NHS’s medical director, former cardiothoracic surgeon Sir Bruce Keogh, about plans to record more than whether patients live or die (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39618.627951.80). Sir Bruce wants to pilot and eventually publicise patient related outcomes such as pain, mobility, and anxiety to show whether patients really feel better after treatment, and by how much.

Meanwhile the NHS is facing a new responsibility: to cut its carbon footprint. As the biggest employer in Europe it emits more than 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, making it the UK’s largest public sector contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The newly . . . [Full text of this article]

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