Sustainability
Working to reduce our carbon footprint
We are committed to sustainability and carbon reduction, aiming to decrease our hospital’s impact on the environment while providing excellent patient care and working environments.
Each year, we support NHS Sustainability Day. We work with patients, visitors, and the local community to develop our sustainability goals and keep environmental responsibility at the forefront of what we do.
Our sustainability objectives are to:
- sustain the culture change, impact and savings we have already made
- support leadership on sustainability amongst our clinical and non-clinical areas and our stakeholders
- integrate sustainability into how we operate and look after our hospitals
Our Green Plan
Our Green Plan sets out how we will contribute the Greener NHS ambition to become the world’s first net-zero health service. Being more sustainable and reducing our carbon footprint is a priority for us, and we can’t wait to do more.
Our sustainability target areas
Our sustainability target areas include:
- energy and carbon reduction in our buildings
- reducing waste
- higher rates of recycling by patients, visitors and staff
- water conservation
- sustainable travel
- programmes that support behaviour and culture change
Our key performance indicators
- Continue to promote staff education around sustainability through ISEP courses and internal education teams
- Maximising capacity utilization and improve performance
- Implementation of EPR and digital transformation
- Increase EV Charging
- Conduct travel survey
- Replacement of all suitable lights with LED
- Development of heat decarbonisation plans for all sites in collaboration with Greater South East Net zero hub and creation of digital twins in collaboration with Barts Health NHS Trust
- Annual review of sustainable procurement initiatives and development of annual roadmap
- To complete Climate Change adaptation risk assessment
- Increasing the number of plant-based meals and low carbon recipes
- Switching to 100% reusable, recylable and compostable packaging
Our thanks
We engage and work with a wide range of internal (clinical and non-clinical teams) and external stakeholders (patients, visitors, facilities contractors). This includes the London Boroughs of Havering, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham, TFL, and ecoDriver company. This engagement is key to our success and to continually achieve our objectives.
We thank all of our partners for their continued support and we look forward to retaining this support for future challenges. Our thanks also extend to our patients and the public for using our sustainability initiative facilities.