opportunities for carbon savings
Acquiring foundation status has allowed Frimley Park to invest
in further patient services such as a modern eye unit, a new
£2m cardiac centre, expanded critical care facilities and
extended consultant cover in front-line services.
the locality over three decades. Acquiring
foundation status has allowed the trust to
invest in further patient services such as a
modern eye unit, a new £2m cardiac centre,
expanded critical care facilities and extended
consultant cover in front-line services.
Reducing energy costs - and minimising the
carbon footprint of its activities in line with
national climate change strategies – has been
a goal for Frimley Park.
Carbon Trust survey
Responsible for guiding the relationship with
Salix Finance from the hospital’s perspective
has been Kwan Cheng, the Business & Per-
formance Manager for Facilities.
In that broadly based role, Ms Cheng takes
change policies. To help reduce carbon consumption in their activities, for the lead, for example, on equipment procure-
example, they can establish a loan fund with Salix Finance, the specialist ment and the analysis and due diligence in-
source of capital for such projects in the public sector. volved when the Department was considering
Drawing funds from a ring-fenced loan ‘pot’ into which they have contrib- an expansion of its activities.
uted the same amount as Salix, a qualifying trust is able to embark on initia- More specifically, she collaborates on a day-
tives which have short payback periods and make an ongoing contribution to today basis with the service delivery teams in
carbon reduction. the hospital such as estates management and
While the investment in a more efficient boiler might be repaid from energy hotel services management to help maintain
savings in three years, the cash benefits achieved continue for the working maximum efficiency of their operations.
life of that equipment. Within that brief comes environmental and
Having a succession of carbon-reducing projects in the pipeline, and the energy efficiency, working with the relevant
commitment of management to see them through to completion, are two of departments to develop action plans that will
the main criteria for the involvement of Salix – notwithstanding a maximum meet increasingly stringent carbon emission
payback period of five years for a single project and a ceiling of £100 on the targets for the public sector.
lifetime cost of each tonne of carbon saved. The involvement of Frimley Park with Salix
Finance was a logical outcome of the hospi-
Negotiations with Salix in 2006
tal trust’s work with the Carbon Trust, which
had funded a programme of consultancy which
It was in the knowledge that those specific and general criteria could be met had identified aspects of the hospital’s activi-
that prompted Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey to enter ties where there was adequate scope for re-
into negotiations with Salix Finance back in 2006. After independent scrutiny ducing carbon consumption.
of the projects in its portfolio, and an assessment of the Trust’s ability to As part of a concerted campaign within the
deliver the returns, Salix contributed £50,000 to a ‘loan pot’ to which Frimley NHS Foundation Trust sector, Salix ap-
Park contributed a matching sum in line with the ground rules of the scheme. proached fifteen of these organisations to for-
By way of background, Frimley Park has been a foundation hospital since mulate plans for achieving that reduction, but
April 2005; one of the first hospital trusts to complete the conversion process. which would need its unique loan funding sup-
Built in 1974 as a district general hospital replacing a number of cottage port to implement.
hospitals in North Hampshire and West Surrey, Frimley Park has seen its As Ms Cheng explained, the Frimley Park team
catchment population rise steadily from around 170,000 to nearer 400,000 rose to the challenge by proposing a portfolio of
today; a reflection of the development of housing and economic activity in projects which involved small investments
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