Professor Dame Sally Davies's ninth independent report as CMO discusses the threat to health posed by pollution to people living in England. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officer-annual-report-2017-health-impacts-of-all-pollution-what-do-we-know
Dr Elmer van der Hoek: "The points made are all laudable, but the problem is that they are 'recommendations' which can easily be ignored.
To have a real effect we need a change in legislation, which is what politicians are shying away from for concerns of negative economic effect and loss of voters. "