How should the climate-health crisis change the role of doctors? What can medical practitioners do now to protect those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change? Can clinicians be advocates for action on climate change with their patients, and how is this best managed?

For a few months now, I've been hearing reports of green activity inside the British Medical Association. They are certainly not blowing their own trumpet, and a thorough scan of their website turned up no details.

In summer 2008, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare teamed up with Doctors.net.uk and BMA News to find the UK’s greenest and least green hospital messes. In the competition, junior hospital doctors were asked: