TY - JOUR T1 - Planetary health and sustainable primary care: what does this mean for a GP curriculum? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 532 LP - 533 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X721073 VL - 72 IS - 724 AU - Suchita Shah Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/724/532.abstract N2 - ‘Wherever we deliver care, in our hospitals, clinics and communities around the world, we are already responding to the health harms caused by climate change.’ (The healthy climate prescription letter delivered to COP26 and COP27 Presidencies, 2021).1In January the roses bloomed. In July, smoke billowed from scorched urban grasslands and homes. The global climate emergency — of which the untimely unfurling of flower buds and extreme heat are just two tell-tale signs — has roused a call to action from the global health community.2 It is claimed, though, that doctors have remained relatively inactive in this conversation and that this is linked to gaps in their training, including a ‘dearth of curricular space.’ 3,4For tomorrow’s doctors to be able to successfully navigate climate-related health threats, in partnership with their patients, medical curricula must shape teaching and learning now. To address this need, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has collaborated with experts and other stakeholders to develop a curriculum topic guide5 that embeds planetary health into UK postgraduate family medicine training.The health of individuals is deeply interconnected with the health of populations and the planet. Planetary health can be defined as ‘the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends.’ 6 As a field, it aims to understand and address the human health impacts of human-caused disruptions to the earth’s natural systems.7 Disruption of these natural systems through, for example, climate … ER -