Green & Healthy
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Podcast Overview
<p>Join your hosts Charlotte Carson and Jeremy LeFevre as they bring together inspiring community champions, leading health professionals and local experts to share compelling stories, fresh insights, and even practical tips on how you can live a healthier and greener life.</p><p>Every episode dives into engaging themes such as active travel, self care, the real cost of cheap food and connecting with nature. Discover pioneering local projects, the passionate people behind them and be inspired to take steps towards community led climate action.</p><p>The show hopes to inspire positive change – both for our own health and for the environment and be curious about the things we have in common within and across communities.</p>
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4/30/2026
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Recent Episodes
May 12, 2026
The Real Cost of Cheap food
<p>What is the real cost of cheap food? Recorded at a live public event hosted at Frome Medical Practice, this episode brings together a GP, a dietitian, a food journalist, a farmer and producer, and a community food activist to explore the links between what we eat, our health and the health of the planet. Includes audience questions.</p><p>Guests</p><p>Tasha – Founder, Land Food and Medicine at 42 Acres. Tasha grows and produces medicinal and native wild foods and runs a free nature and food programme for people with mental health challenges and women seeking asylum. She draws on her Nicaraguan heritage and experience of food poverty to make the case for food culture, community, and nutrient-dense food over quantity. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.landfoodmedicine.com/">https://www.landfoodmedicine.com/</a></p><p>Leslie Harper – Registered Dietitian, Somerset Integrated Care Board. Leslie leads a programme educating NHS staff across Somerset on gut health and the importance of fibre, pulses, and less processed foods. She makes the case for focusing on what we are no longer eating rather than demonising specific foods.</p><p>Dr Helen Kingston – GP, Frome Medical Practice. Helen connects the dots between poor diet, over-medication, and a healthcare system that too often creates problems rather than preventing them, and champions food as a universal health message with no stigma attached.</p><p>Hugh Thomas – Food journalist, The Warfish Journal; coordinator, Frome Food Network; co-manager, Canteen (pay-as-you-can pop-up restaurant). Hugh covers food and farming in Somerset and makes the economic case for local, seasonal, and minimally processed food. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.thewfj.co.uk/">https://www.thewfj.co.uk/</a></p>
May 12, 2026
Optimising Medication
<p>Medicines account for around a quarter of the NHS carbon footprint. In this episode, Charlotte talks to a GP, a pharmacy technician, and a sustainability lead about three projects underway at Frome Medical Practice that are improving patient care, reducing unnecessary prescribing, and cutting the environmental cost of medication at the same time.</p><p>Guests</p><p>Dr Georgie Kirby – GP, Frome Medical Practice. Georgie leads the Choosing Wisely project, focusing on long-term pain management and reducing reliance on opiates and gabapentinoids that are no longer in NICE guidelines. She also covers the practice's successful switch from pressurised metered-dose inhalers to dry powder alternatives, reducing the carbon footprint of a single inhaler from the equivalent of a London to Sheffield car journey to roughly four miles.</p><p>Laura – Pharmacy Technician, Frome Medical Practice. Laura leads the Only Order What You Need project, which has saved the practice £266,000 and 41,000kg of CO2 in a single year simply by encouraging patients to order repeat prescriptions monthly rather than in bulk. She also runs medication reviews for patients on antidepressants and HRT, supporting those who want to reduce or come off medication with care and proper follow-up.</p><p>Dan – Project Sustainability and Variation Lead, Green & Healthy Frome. Dan tracks the environmental data behind the practice's prescribing work, including medication entering waterways, improper disposal, and the carbon cost of pharmaceutical production.</p>
May 12, 2026
Women's Health
<p>Women's health and planetary health have more in common than you might think — both have been historically sidelined in research, policy and public conversation. In this episode, Charlotte is joined by a GP, a trainee health psychologist, and the founder of a perinatal mental health charity to explore the links between women's health, the environment, and the systems that shape both. Honest, wide-ranging and at times quietly radical.</p><p>Guests</p><p>Dr Neha Baghi – GP and Partner, Frome Medical Practice. Neha covers the near-total absence of research into how environmental pollutants affect women's biology differently, the role of women's health in community and planetary health, and what she would like to see from a future NHS Women's Health strategy.</p><p>Matisse Lack – Trainee Health Psychologist, Frome Medical Practice. Matisse has spent the past year leading women's health quality improvement projects at the practice, including focus groups, improved HRT access, Saturday cervical screening clinics, and the Navigating Menopause programme — a six-week lifestyle course now running as a permanent part of the practice's offer alongside the regular Habits for Health programme.</p><p>Suzie Christenance – Founder, Frome Birth Talk. Suzie's perinatal mental health charity provides free and low-cost counselling and four weekly drop-in groups for anyone who is pregnant or has had or lost a baby in the last two years. She speaks candidly about the impossible load placed on mothers and the systemic changes needed to support them.</p><p></p><p></p>
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- What is Green & Healthy?
<p>Join your hosts Charlotte Carson and Jeremy LeFevre as they bring together inspiring community champions, leading health professionals and local experts to share compelling stories, fresh insights, and even practical tips on how you can live a healthier and greener life.</p><p>Every episode dives into engaging themes such as active travel, self care, the real cost of cheap food and connecting with nature. Discover pioneering local projects, the passionate people behind them and be inspired to take steps towards community led climate action.</p><p>The show hopes to inspire positive change – both for our own health and for the environment and be curious about the things we have in common within and across communities.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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