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We need to consider what we, as organisations and individuals, can do to reduce our own carbon footprints. It’s all very well to talk about it, but this winter, this extreme weather, shows just how close global warming could be. For Britain, global warming doesn’t mean getting warmer, it means getting colder – we’re on the same latitude as Alaska, and we should expect that sort of weather.

There seems to be an enormous gulf, in healthcare, between those that care for patients, and those that administer. Neither side seems to trust the other – clinicians accuse managers of thinking only of costs, and in return managers complain of a refusal to recognise limited resources. This applies in other environments, eg social care, where care professionals and management also seem to struggle to bridge the communication gulf.

Dr Hugo Minney gained his PhD in protein chemistry in 1990, and has worked in Agriculture, Academia, Information Technology, Sales and Business Consulting, and Service Improvement. Prior to joining the NHS in 2004, he was with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Manpower Software (developing Workforce Planning and Team Optimisation software for NHS).