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n Reduced traffic movements for delivery of the scheme, lowering the overall carbon footprint.


n A reduction in programme risk, since once the superstructure is delivered, modular building site works are unhindered by adverse weather conditions during winter months. Northampton General Hospital has taken advantage of some of these benefits across the last two years by engaging Catfoss to deliver modular solutions for a Paediatric A&E extension, front entrance / retail building, and, as featured on the cover of this HEJ, a two-storey ITU building, which is now nearing completion / adoption by the Trust. A recent inspection of the ITU by the Minister of Health attracted glowing comments for the scheme, and it was stated “This new-build ITU is a real ‘cherry on the cake’ for Northampton General Hospital”.


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By mid-January, NHS Trusts across England were required to have submitted a finalised Green Plan to their local Integrated Care System. As Senior account manager and NHS specialist at Inenco, Beth Goodwin, points out in an article on pages 37-41, based on a recent ‘Teams’ discussion with me, quite a number of UK Trusts have been actively pursuing sustainability initiatives for some years, and for them, putting together a comprehensive Plan may not be that onerous. For others, however, it will have entailed significant work, while renewing pressure on staff from a wide range of both clinical and non-clinical disciplines to think about areas where they could be doing more. During our ‘Teams’ meeting, Beth Goodwin discussed some of Inenco’s recent work helping and advising NHS Trusts with their Green Plans. In a webinar being held in association with HEJ on 18 May, she will present on an associated topic – some of the ‘challenges and opportunities’ for NHS Trusts in mitigating rising energy prices, and reducing their energy consumption, but will also discuss Green Plans’ practical implementation. During their work with NHS organisations


on Green Plans to date, Beth Goodwin said she and her colleagues had made some interesting discoveries – for instance while sustainable transport must surely be a key tenet of a Trust’s Green Plan, few Trusts yet appear to have a full-time Sustainable Transport co-ordinator in post, while where hospitals have green space – access to which could benefit staff, patient, and visitor well-being – many do not fully exploit it. Equally, while many Trusts now recognise the high Global Warming Potential of desflurane – one of the most commonly used anaesthetic gases – others are worried that reducing or eliminating its use, despite the clear environmental benefits, could strain relations with their lead anaesthetists. Other subjects discussed during our interesting hour-long chat included greater potential use of hydrogen as a fuel source, and the current practical obstacles, reducing unnecessary patient travel to acute sites, and the challenge of persuading some staff that meeting the NHS’s Net Zero ambitions requires universal buy-in, effort, and commitment.


Jonathan Baillie,


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