College Advisory Forum on the Environment
RCPE's Mission
Our mission is to promote and improve the quality of health and patient care worldwide. We will do this by improving accessibility to the profession, developing collaborative partnerships, encouraging innovation and delivering outstanding education, training, quality improvement, and assessment opportunities.
Learn more about the College's purpose.
About the Committee
This Forum is comprised of Members and Fellows of the College, and College staff. The Forum meets at least four times a year with the aim of further supporting RCPE’s strategy and aims with particular projects and activities relating to climate change, including air pollution.
Learn more about the members of the CAFE group.
Ten Things a Doctor can do to Combat Climate Change
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Practise preventive medicine
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Prescribe carefully
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Reduce the investigations you request
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Use telephone consultations and low carbon meetings
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Reduce use of personal protective equipment
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Switch it off
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Walk, cycle, or use public transport
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Bring your own food and drink (locally produced) in reusable containers
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Learn, and audit your practice
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Join discussions in your board or trust about the big things.
Visit RCPE's Education Portal where you will find Open Access (free to anyone) e-learning from CAFE on 10 things a doctor can do to combat climate change.
Air Pollution Working Group
The RCPE Working Group on Air Pollution continue to be busy raising awareness about the health harms of poor air quality, both at Government level (Holyrood and Westminster) and also with the public.
Our schools project, having shown less than 2% of city schools have an air quality monitor near them, has now reached the stage of seeking funding for a 2 year project to place such monitors round our city schools to ensure we know our children are not being polluted.
The latest work relates to a call by Westminster to comment on their stance regarding electric vehicles (EVs). The consultation questions, often directed to the manufacturers and sellers of cars, suggested some attenuation of the proposed legislation. The Working group reminded the Government about the significant health impact of traffic emissions (1/3rd of all emissions both in UK and Scotland) and asked that the 2030 timeline for all new cars to be EVs be followed as there will be significant health, and knock on economic benefits, if it is retained.”
Visit our news page for latest articles on our support for tackling air pollution.
Learn More
For more information about the group, contact Dani Cleeland.
You can also read our 2024 Winter Report to stay up to date on latest developments from the CAFE group.
