Comment : Summertime blues?

As the country continues to swelter in the blistering heat and smog of July, those practitioners with a few spaces in their appointment books can take the opportunity to reflect.

A collection of issues have come together which all point to one thing. Go out there and grab patients and customers because no one else is going to drive them in. Allergy sufferers are perhaps more acutely aware than most about the effect global warming is having on their lives.

Dramatic images gathered from the European Space Agency’s Envisat and Nasa’s Aura satellite show nitrogen dioxide levels rising to unprecedented levels in British towns and cities.