Dr Joan Madia

Microplastics are now found throughout the human body, with emerging but not yet conclusive evidence linking them to serious health harms.

Exclusion aims to redirect behaviour and improve trajectories, yet in practice pupils show no improvement and continue to experience poor outcomes over time.

England records around 30,000 excess deaths every winter: 30% more people die daily in January than August. Respiratory disease, cardiovascular conditions, and dementia drive the seasonal surge, amplified by cold homes and an ageing population. The pattern is strikingly consistent across a decade of ONS data, and largely preventable.