need to reduce consumption
With a status approaching a fully commercial
Clinical excellence apart, an aspiring foun-
(but not-for-profit) business in the NHS, all hospital
dation trust must be able to demonstrate that
it understands and reflects the needs of its
trusts must also meet the growing pressure on
‘customer base’. No less important is that a
public sector institutions to reduce utility
hospital trust hoping to make the transition
consumption consistent with the demands made
can demonstrate the highest level of steward-
ship over its assets and resources.
on those utilities by the health care professionals.
Climate change policies
With a status approaching a fully commercial
(but not-for-profit) business in the NHS, all
The East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is hospital trusts must also meet the growing
one entity that is keen to take that step, and pressure on public sector institutions to im-
the group’s management is on record setting plement sound climate change policies and
out its case for changing status in the next reduce utility consumption consistent with the
twelve months. Its name leaves little to the demands made on those utilities by the health
imagination as to its purpose and geographi- care professionals. There is very little point in
cal scope. asking medical teams to operate by the light
It is a group of four medical facilities serv- of a 22 watt low energy light bulb, no matter
ing a population of half a million in Hertford- how much electricity it might save.
shire; two of them entire acute hospitals, one Hospitals are major consumers of electric-
an out-patients facility and the fourth a pro- ity, gas and water and there are many oppor-
vider of oncology services sharing a hospital tunities for reducing consumption which does
site with another hospital trust. not impact upon their work.
The East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust A free survey from the Carbon Trust was one
has four sites. . . of the first steps which helped set the East &
• Hertford County hospital in Hertford
North Hertfordshire NHS Trust operation on
• Lister hospital in Stevenage
its energy reduction track. Independent asses-
• Mount Vernon cancer centre in
sors appointed by the Carbon Trust undertook
Northwood, Middlesex
a site visit and produced a report and recom-
• Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Welwyn
mendations; most of which were taken on
Garden City
board by the hospital.
Bob Jones, the Property Services Manager
The Lister hospital at Stevenage and the at the hospital trust believes that the report
Queen Elizabeth II hospital at Welwyn Gar- provided constructive advice and an indica-
den City between them provide a wide range tion of the potential CO
of major acute in-patient services, including
2
savings that could be
achieved.
A&E & Maternity services. Along with Hert-
ford County, all three hospitals provide rou-
tine care to people on an out-patients basis,
Accounting for resources consumed
including radiology & pathology services. Taking a broader view of utility consumption,
The specialist cancer centre at Mount it was clear to the hospital’s management that
Vernon shares premises at the Mount Vernon each of the ‘business units’ within its opera-
Hospital with the Hillingdon NHS Hospital tions should be able to account for the re-
Trust some miles to the west and provides a sources it consumes and have these charged
specialist tertiary chemotherapy & radio- back equitably against its income stream.
therapy service to a population of some 2 Seeing a direct relationship between energy
million people including those living in North- consumption and the impact upon their own
west London, Hertfordshire & parts of Bed- budgets prompts senior departmental staff to pro-
fordshire, Berkshire & Buckinghamshire. mote a culture of responsible energy usage.
The information derived from data monitoring empowers management to make decisions which demonstrably
reduce the overhead costs of running an organisation, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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