Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100241
Rosa Montero, Isaac Chung, Mark Wright
{"title":"Healthcare resilience in the climate crisis: Do we have any?","authors":"Rosa Montero, Isaac Chung, Mark Wright","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The UK is increasingly being affected by unpredictable weather events with flooding, heatwaves and storms impacting on physical and mental health and livelihoods. All of these will become increasingly common as the climate crisis accelerates. Efforts made to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are slow. Healthcare systems must meet the growing demands of a multi-morbid and ageing population, while simultaneously reducing their environmental impact. The NHS is already under significant pressures and currently is ill-prepared to deal with these changes unless adaptive and resilient measures are introduced urgently and at pace. Hospital infrastructures require urgent vulnerability climate crisis assessment; however, fundamentally the models of care we currently use are dated and in need of innovative solutions that embrace digital technologies to help develop new models of care in the community. Failure to introduce resilience will lead to future preventable deaths. We must act now and do so collaboratively.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998283/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100238
Matthew Rd Lee, Mark Harber
{"title":"The climate crisis is a global health emergency: A call to arms.","authors":"Matthew Rd Lee, Mark Harber","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998292/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100229
Thomas Daniels, Linford Fernandes
{"title":"The FHJ debate: Sustainable healthcare should be the responsibility of every physician.","authors":"Thomas Daniels, Linford Fernandes","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100228
Eleanor C Murray, Hugh Montgomery
{"title":"The 'climate emergency', and how we respond.","authors":"Eleanor C Murray, Hugh Montgomery","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Driven by human activity, global heating and associated climate change threaten the health and survival of those alive today. This paper explains why, the pace and scale of the response required.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998296/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144059875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100230
Alice Joy
{"title":"Patient perspective on the climate health emergency.","authors":"Alice Joy","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients and carers must be part of the move toward reducing waste, improving sustainability and tackling climate change in the current emergency. Without accurate, practical information they cannot contribute. Patients have fears associated with climate change and health, which are explored here.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-03-31eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100237
Andrew Duncombe
{"title":"Healthcare on a burning planet.","authors":"Andrew Duncombe","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11998299/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144060609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-02-15eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100227
Daniel Pan, Manish Pareek, Michael R Barer
{"title":"Authors' response: 'Implementation of facemask sampling for the detection of infectious individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in high stakes clinical examinations - a feasibility study'.","authors":"Daniel Pan, Manish Pareek, Michael R Barer","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11914734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-02-08eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100226
Mrinalini Dey
{"title":"From 'Airs, Waters, and Places' to a warming world: Chronic illness, social inequities and the climate crisis.","authors":"Mrinalini Dey","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100226","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 2024 Teale Essay Prize invited resident or specialty and associate specialist doctors to consider how climate change affects healthcare, and the role of the physician. This theme aligns with the Royal College of Physicians' commitment to sustainable healthcare. The link between climate and health is not new - Hippocrates described this relationship nearly 2,500 years ago. More recently, catastrophic events, including crop failures due to extreme weather and the spread of diseases, have been attributed to climate change. These events can impact health directly, eg through trauma and infections, and indirectly, through rising rates of cardiovascular, respiratory, and mental health illnesses and other long-term conditions. Here, I reflect on my winning essay, from the perspective of a trainee rheumatologist with an academic interest in social determinants of health. This article examines the global health challenges resulting from climate change, and considers how physicians can practice more sustainably.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11914735/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-02-07eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100225
Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit
{"title":"Letter to the editor: 'Implementation of facemask sampling for the detection of infectious individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in high stakes clinical examinations <b>-</b> a feasibility study'.","authors":"Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a discussion on implementation of facemask sampling for the detection of infectious individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in high-stakes clinical examinations. Important concerns on diagnostic accuracy and reliability are raised.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11914736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future healthcare journalPub Date : 2025-01-14eCollection Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100223
John Welch, Jane Murkin, Eirian Edwards, Matthew Inada-Kim, Christian Subbe
{"title":"Giving patients, families and staff a reliable voice in acute care: Expert guidance for implementation of Martha's Rule in UK hospitals.","authors":"John Welch, Jane Murkin, Eirian Edwards, Matthew Inada-Kim, Christian Subbe","doi":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>'Failure to rescue' in patients with documented signs of deterioration results in an estimated five potentially avoidable deaths at each acute trust in England each month. One common cause is inattention to concerns of patients or their families about acute deterioration. Martha's Rule requires reliable methods for (1) patients or their families to escalate worries and concerns about deterioration and (2) to routinely input their understanding of their illness/wellness and trajectory into the health record. This paper sets out the rationale for these approaches. Following review with staff from the first wave of British units that have introduced Martha's Rule or similar systems, the authors suggest tested and evidence-based methods for implementation and describe gaps in current understanding of such systems. Importantly, the paper outlines answers to frequently voiced concerns about these sorts of methods and a set of suitable metrics for organisations to measure the impact of implementation on processes and outcomes in acute care.</p>","PeriodicalId":73125,"journal":{"name":"Future healthcare journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"100223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11889965/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143588507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}