It’s good for our health, it saves money and reduces emissions, but is a plant-based diet something that the NHS could adopt? Dr Shireen Kassam investigates…

The first tenet of a healthcare professional or institution is ‘first, do no harm’. Since becoming vegan almost 10 years ago, for me, as a practicing doctor in the NHS, this means ‘do no harm to people, planet and animals’.

This is known by the international healthcare community as ‘One Health’, defined as ‘a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognising the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment’.  >>MORE