Steve Charlton, Technical manager at Barkell Air Handling Units, considers the impact of air pollution on indoor healthcare environments, and particularly primary and secondary healthcare settings.
Steve Charlton, Technical manager at Barkell Air Handling Units, considers the impact of air pollution on indoor healthcare environments, and particularly primary and secondary healthcare settings, and highlights how poor air quality can detrimentally affect both patient recovery and the wellbeing of doctors, nurses, and other members of the medical team. He also explains how some of the recommendations in the Clean Air Hospital Framework, commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and Global Action Plan, can be implemented, to help address the issue.
We all know that climate change and air pollution, both closely linked, are an issue. Just recently, we heard on the news that this decade is set to be the warmest on record, and that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases reached new heights in 2018, with the increase surging above the average amounts recorded in previous years.
So high profile is the story of climate change that celebrities are getting on board, campaigning for better air quality, and refusing to do tours until they are carbon neutral (although Chris Martin did fly to Jordan to announce this, but that’s another story).
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