Today @uclh launches our #NetZero strategy Critical Care for Our Climate. Health care is responsible for over 4% of global emissions. The NHS can lead the world with low carbon care models, indeed its already starting to happen. uclh.nhs.uk/application/file…

Loved doing keynote at Climate and Health summit at #Earthfest 2026. Timing poignant given current heat wave, but the energy around action was uplifting, despite the challenges we all face in driving change forward. #ClimateAction

Life saving/extending drug approved for bowel cancer patients thanks to biosimilar re-appraisal after £££ branded drug rejected. I lobbied @NICEComms for over 2 years & they listened! Bevacizumab is the START. More biosimilars/generics should now follow nice.org.uk/news/articles/th…

Great meeting staff on the wards and in theatres today & talking sustainability. We’ve spoken to 450 staff across @uclh this month about improving hand hygiene and reducing glove use. Better for patients, better for the planet and saves money too.

Visited Hospital de Sant Pau. Breathtaking art nouveau hospital in Barcelona. Incredible and window into 1920s medicine and earliest net zero hospital, powered on geothermal from 400 wells each 100 deep. Wow

On a 285 km/hr train to Barcelona for a health conference where am speaking about innovation and also climate action. Wonderful experience, comfy, fast WIFI, good catering. So much nicer than flying! Just over £46 each way. So much cheaper than UK trains too!

Great to speak at #KFAnnual Conf on #Climate & our work @uclh. Serious stuff but there is hope, as we have the solutions. Good climate strategy does not run against finance, tech or quality, but harnesses them. This is an area NHS can lead the world & build green economic growth

CAR-T cell therapy is one of the biggest breakthrough cancer treatments in recent years. Proud that @uclh is trialing its use for multiple sclerosis for the first time. Extraordinary science and fascinating development for autoimmune conditions news.sky.com/story/woman-has…

Exhausted but elated after incredible week rethinking clinic letters for the modern era. Brought GPs, @uclh staff, patients together for a huge push. The time, safety challenges, cost & impact on GP & hospital staff is vast. 9 key solutions, 1 worked up prototype & we’re done ✔️

Excited to start our clinic letter sprint today with patients, GPs, @uclh clinicians, techies and administrators. Letters have a massive role, safety critical, hugely expensive and time consuming. Major challenges outlined today, so looking forward to what we can do about it

On wards today @uclh - remarkable clinical skills & v complex patients. ⬆️ role for generalists - Ward round strategy key, but not standardised - many reasons for discharge delays - disposable curtains are v hard to draw - scrubs pockets are too small &📱falls out

Stunning and much welcome good news!

Important to spread hope. People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours… newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

The rise of YouTube shorts in the last year is mind blowing. Up to 200 billion daily views or 1% of human waking hours. This should make us pause and wonder if the lauded productivity gains from AI tech will be simply be offset by increasingly effective tech distractions

Great #FestivalofExcellence hearing superb improvement work @uclh. I talked about quality, & why spending more ≠ better outcomes. Gave 3 case studies which show drive quality ⬆️ then cost ⬇️ (hip surgery, gloves off, clinic letters). Complexity the enemy of reliability & quality

Person centred care at it's best! Our team working across services to enable one of our young, severely needle phobic patients to get the vaccinations he needed to visit his family abroad for the first time. (Spoiler alert: solution was vax when under general for his dental work)