Health for XR

“No reasonable person could convincingly argue that sexual predators are less of a risk to patient safety & trust in the profession than climate protesters, yet this is the inexplicable reality the GMC’s failing regulatory processes have left us in.”

My latest piece 👇
blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...

An incomprehensible decision by the GMC.

Shocking. 😢
Deep appreciation to Dr Patrick Hart for drawing attention to the #climatecrisis
Doing his job as a doctor and pointing out the looming health emergency.

Oh! The GMC

The same GMC ‘soft on doctors guilty of sexual assault’

So sexual assault doesn’t merit removal from the register - but peacefully protesting to save everyone on the planet’s life is

bsky.app/profile/bmj....

Thankyou Patrick for highlighting the climate crisis as an enormous risk to patient safety. Perhaps one day the gmc will acknowledge that your act is one of professionalism and not impairment

As a patient, carer, educator, psychologist, I’d have far more confidence in Dr Patrick as my (or anyone’s) GP than those on the tribunal who ruled to suspend him from practice. Openly raising the alarm about harm, when other actions have been disregarded, is an act of responsibility.

I've known Pat for several years. Awful news that he's suspended. Would choose him as my GP if I could. Many of his actual patients have come out in support of him. All for trying to stop the greatest harm we face.

'Most Drs spend their lives contributing to our healthcare system & caring for patients without foreseeing a time when the fundamental aims of medicine would come into conflict with the Govt,political inertia on public health policies & protecting patients. Dr Harts case shows that time has arrived’

In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.

Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...

“What is the GMC trying to achieve by depriving Dr Hart the very possibility of being a doctor, for having asked to address what the GMC itself calls “one of the greatest threats to human health?”

📝 "Protecting environmental defenders to safeguard environmental democracy"

My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...

🧵 The continued persecution of climate whistleblowers who are motivated to action by their desire to protect public health highlights the ethical and moral failure of the GMC to respond appropriately to what is accepted to be the greatest public health threat of the 21st century.

🧵 The UN special Rapporteur for environmental defenders has expressed his concern at the treatment of UK medical climate activists and has written to the UK government to raise concerns about Dr Hart’s treatment - www.lar.earth/statement-fr...

🧵The British Medical Association passed two motions this year at ARM condemning disciplinary action against medical activists and adding that the BMA would “…continue to regard any doctors erased from the register for non-violent protest as professional colleagues in good standing”.

🧵The GMC prosecution has previously argued that imprisonment for climate protest is de facto evidence of misconduct that negatively impacts the confidence of the public in the profession. They insist context and motivation are irrelevant

🧵 This is the third tribunal convened so far to discipline climate activist doctors, with previous tribunals resulting in the suspension of retired GP’s Dr Sarah Benn and Dr Diana Warner.

🧵Dr Hart was referred to the MPTS by the GMC following his imprisonment earlier this year for an action in which Exxon Mobil petrol pumps were damaged to highlight their historic and ongoing complicity in the climate health emergency - healthforxr.com/gp-given-cus...

🧵 Dr Patrick Hart becomes the first working doctor to face possible erasure for climate protest as his Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing begins in Manchester today - healthforxr.com/dr-patrick-h...

I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...

“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”

Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...

Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.

It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...

Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fiona Godlee

"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."

Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Health professionals join thousands in the march to Downing Street today, calling on the government to make polluters pay

@makepolluterspay.bsky.social

We're on the streets today to tell the Government #MakePollutersPay!

Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰

Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social

Why do climate protestors get disciplined but sexual predators don’t?

The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.

🤔

IF YOU DRILL BABY DRILL 🇺🇲 HOW MANY WILL YOU KILL?

🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US

Fiona Godlee

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Amazing, brave health workers, arrested for protesting peacefully in support of the health workers and people of Gaza, and against violations of human rights, international law and UK complicity in the genocide.

Saying it like it is 👇👇👇

If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?