NHS Property Services Launches Green Plan

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20 March 2025

NHS Property Services has unveiled a three year plan to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.

The body’s previous green plan, launched in 2022, saw 960 sustainability-related projects across NHS trusts, including LED lighting upgrades, BMS optimisation, and Solar PV installations. 

The new plan focuses on energy, utilities and data, environment, and waste.

The NHS property services portfolio consists of 2,900 properties (about 12 per cent of the entire NHS estate by floor space) with an estimated value of £3.8 billion. More than 60 per cent of the properties are health centres, surgeries or clinics. It has about 6,950 tenants. The NHS represents around four per cent of the country’s carbon emissions.

Here are some of the 2025 pledges:

• Complete 90 decarbonisation projects over the next three years
• Pilot a toolkit with GPs to save energy in their practices
• Double the amount of sustainability data accessible to the NHS, improving carbon reporting, enhancing data sharing, and providing analysis to help stakeholders reduce their environmental impact
• Complete audits at 132 higher-risk sites
• Reach the NHS England waste segregation target of 20 per cent incineration, 20 per cent infectious waste, and 60 per cent offensive waste
• Achieve a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from waste

Cameron Hawkins, Head of Energy and Environment, said: “We are really proud of what the previous Green Plan delivered, from the 48 per cent reduction in carbon emissions to the £47.8 million we saved on energy. We are now even more ambitious to contribute towards a net-zero NHS with a smarter, greener and more efficient estate.” 

Picture: a photograph of Cameron Hawkins. Image Credit: NHSPS

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 20 March 2025

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