A need for improving diagnostic provision to provide patient-centred pathways for all patients, regardless of their location, has been evident for some time, but the impact of Covid-19 on diagnostic activity has highlighted the importance of the issue.

Eleanor Murray, Policy Analyst at Public Policy Projects (PPP), and Sacha Wright, Research and Curriculum Coordinator at Force of Nature, discuss the relationship between environment and health, psychological responses to the climate crisis and solution-based interventions.

Anna Dickinson, Policy Analyst at Public Policy Projects, asks genomics experts Professor Anna Middleton and Vivienne Parry what can be done to encourage people to share their data to support valuable research, identification of those at risk of certain conditions and the development of treatments.