Community Hospital UK’s First to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
Rye, Winchelsea & District Memorial Hospital has become the UK’s first community hospital to achieve carbon neutrality. The NHS hospital is fully...
Read Full ArticleNHS 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:
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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