explaining the case
data from all of the sensors around the site
can be fed back over a single wireless net-
The East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust increases awareness
work to the control system, making it a cost-
of energy saving to staff through a series of dynamic screen
effective approach to monitoring.” savers on the computers they access. Around twenty different
Mr Jones used the expression ‘wireless net-
work’ there: surely a hospital, with its large
slides explain the objectives and tell staff what they can do to
amount of sensitive electronics would be
achieve results. Displays are manned at intervals, to show
about the last place where a radio network
visitors to the hospital sites what the Trust is trying to achieve.
could be installed? “It operates at a power and
frequency which does not interfere with any
other equipment on the site and is therefore
much more practical and more flexible than
installing a cable network.”
When the Optimal Monitoring system is in-
stalled in ‘customer-facing’ sites such as
schools and council offices, the data from the
network is often displayed on screens in en-
trance halls and lobby areas; the argument
being that seeing energy being wasted pro-
vides a powerful reason to take action.
Increasing awareness of consumption
East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has fol-
lowed that principle of increasing awareness
but in a way that is more appropriate to the
application. “We get the energy message over
to staff in the hospital through a series of dy-
namic screen savers on the computers they
access.
“A sequence of up to twenty different slides
explains the objectives and tells them what
they can do to achieve results. We also man
display stands at intervals, at each of the hos-
pitals in the Trust. We show people visiting
the sites what it is that we are trying to achieve, investment in a new Local General Hospital
and provide them with leaflets that will help on the QEII hospital site.
them save energy at home and in their
workplace.
“The Trust’s senior management are fully
Into the future
committed to the practice of energy reduc- Spurred on by new energy saving opportuni-
tion, and the data we have been able to col- ties linked to this new development and the pros-
lect since the system went live in 2006 will pect of well managed energy resources playing
make a significant contribution to our perform- a vital role in a future foundation hospital, Bob
ance on that front.” Jones talks in terms of a dedicated ‘central-
Delivering Quality Healthcare for Hertford- ised’ energy management centre; of improved
shire (DQHH) means an NHS capital investment combustion efficiency and controls for the
of £130m in the East & North Hertfordshire to boilers at the Lister site and the prospect of a
consolidate acute services at the Lister hos- Combined Heat & Power (CHP) generator able
pital site (£100m). to use renewable materials such as biomass.
The phases include a new building facility All very energy efficient; all demonstrating
for Women’s & Children’s services, a new multi- that a hospital can be at the forefront of clini-
storey car park, the centralisation of surgery, cal provision while running its operations on
new urgent care centre & A&E expansion, new a sound business footing wholly consistent
main tower block. There will also be a £30m with the UK’s carbon reduction strategy. §
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