Meat to be removed from hospital menus as NHS tells patients to ring GPs to cut carbon emissions | Mail Online

Patients should phone their GP rather than drive in for a visit, according to National Health Service guidelines unveiled today.

Ministers want family doctors to hold more 'phone-in' surgeries to help the environment by cutting carbon emissions from cars.

They also want hospitals to achieve their green targets by reducing the amount of meat they serve to patients in wards.

Patient groups said the 'telemedicine' plans were fraught with danger because a misdiagnosis over the phone could lead to incorrect treatment and even death.
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Mark Wallace, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'People will be suspicious that yet again the environment is being used as an excuse to give a worse service.'
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Critics warned that patients need the protein and iron in meat to help them regain their strength after an operation.

This idiocy is getting roundly ripped in the comment section of the article above.