Today is Earth Day – where more than one billion people, governments, institutions and businesses will come together to recognise our collective responsibility and to help accelerate the transition to an equitable, prosperous green economy for all.
The NHS is one of the largest employers in the world, meaning it has a significant carbon footprint that it is working hard to reduce. Radical new ways of managing the NHS estate are needed, and this is why NHS Property Services is leading the way with the development of one of the first net zero health centres in England – the Devizes Health Centre in Wiltshire.
It is also the small changes, when implemented across an organisation that make a huge difference to improving environmental impact and lowering costs across the NHS estate. Recycling is one such change.
In the last 12 months over 99 per cent of NHSPS waste has been diverted from landfill. This outstanding result has been achieved by:
Our Little Wins
As owners of 12 per cent of the NHS estate, these little wins amount to a large impact on reducing the environmental impact across the NHS.
We are an established engineering company based in Cardiff, South Wales and have been trading for 15 years, the company was started by David Hill initially working out of a small lock up garage and making gates and railings for domestic customers, to our current workshop of 5300sq ft.
As the years have progressed we have moved away from domestic customers and focused more on business customers, we have also increased our product and service offerings and we now offer general fabrication, specialist fabrication and site services on a nationwide basis.
MGPS Services Ltd are an independent company accredited to ISO 9001:2015 and provide Medical Gas
Northwich’s Victoria Infirmary (VIN) Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has enabled more patients
With health sector vacancies at a record high, one NHS trust in Kent is battling back by offering more than 300 fully-paid apprenticeships, from nursing to administrators
The NHS must embrace the agency workforce. During this staffing crisis, recruitment agencies and temps are playing a crucial role in keeping wards open and the wheels of the NHS turning, writes Yerin Seo, senior campaigns advisor at the Recruitment and Employment Confederati