Annual Report and Financial Accounts 2010/11
Business Review Action plans and time frames
The Equality and Diversity Committee meets on a quarterly basis. It reports directly to the Workforce Committee and focuses on ensuring the Trust is compliant with Diversity legislation and improving the experience of the Trust for diverse groups, whether as patients or employees.
There are two action groups established which report to the Diversity Committee on a regular basis. These groups focus on Equality Impact Assessments (as discussed above) and understanding patient diversity. The purpose of this group is to look at ways to improve the patient experience for people from diverse groups and to better understand the needs of our local community.
During 2011 the Trust will publish the new Single Equality Scheme, which is developed by engaging with employees, patients and the local community. It includes a new action plan which focuses the Trust on specific aims to significantly improve all aspects of equality and diversity.
The Trust aims to embed into the organisation an underpinning knowledge of diverse issues. The objective is for employees to appreciate those that it serves by recognising, understanding, respecting and considering individual needs.
4.8 Cutting our carbon footprint Responsible sustainability and carbon reduction
The NHS has a carbon footprint of 18 million tonnes CO2 per year. This is made up of energy (22%), travel (18%) and
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procurement (60%). There are carbon reduction targets for NHS Trusts and other public bodies to reduce their 2007 footprints by 10% by 2015, 20% by 2020, and a massive 80% by 2050.
The Trust’s emissions baseline (from 2010) is 32,854 TCO2. A 10% target over the next years equates to a target reduction of 3,288 TCO2 (658 TCO2 each year).
This means that the current level of growth of emissions not only has to be curbed, but the trend reversed and absolute emissions reduced. The Trust is guided by NHS targets.
In recent years, the overall carbon footprint for the Trust has risen slightly. This is the result of a 28% rise in patient activity levels, from 2006/7 to 2009/10, on patient and visitor travel and procurement spend. There has, however, been significant progress in reducing emissions and costs associated with energy usage. The overall footprint, relative to patient activity levels, has fallen significantly.
Diagrams 1 and 2 on page 51 show the Trust’s predicted emissions if the Trust continued to operate as it does based on the increase in patient activity, compared with our target emissions:
The Trust has adopted a series of carbon reduction targets in support of the NHS target to reduce emissions by 10% by 2015/16. A Sustainable Management Plan is in place to deliver carbon reduction, in response to the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy for England, including through direct energy consumption, procurement, transport, waste and water.
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