Montero Rosa, Chung Isaac, Wright Mark
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, SW17 0QT, UK.
City St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK.
Future Healthc J. 2025 Mar 31;12(1):100241. doi: 10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100241. eCollection 2025 Mar.
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.
英国正越来越多地受到不可预测的天气事件影响，洪水、热浪和风暴对身心健康及生计造成冲击。随着气候危机加速，所有这些情况将变得越来越普遍。减少温室气体排放的努力进展缓慢。医疗保健系统必须满足多病共存和老龄化人口不断增长的需求，同时减少其对环境的影响。国民保健服务体系（NHS）已经承受着巨大压力，目前还没有做好应对这些变化的准备，除非立即并迅速采取适应性和韧性措施。医院基础设施需要进行紧急的气候危机脆弱性评估；然而，从根本上说，我们目前使用的护理模式已经过时，需要创新解决方案，采用数字技术来帮助开发社区护理新模式。不引入韧性将导致未来可预防的死亡。我们现在必须采取行动，而且要共同行动。
