Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to the UK’s health – here’s why

Air quality is connected to poor health outcomes and healthcare authorities can work to improve it.

The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Photo Courtesy of Newcastle Hospitals.

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In a landmark case in 2020 a coroner ruled that air pollution was a cause of a girl’s death. Ella Kissi-Debrah, a nine-year-old from south London, had grown up exposed to dangerous levels of pollution that exacerbated her acute form of asthma. She died in 2013.