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Imperial College Trust to invest £115 m across sites
Imperial College Healthcare said it plans to invest £115 m across its five hospitals in 2025/26 to reduce estate risks and improve experience in response to redevelopment delays. This compares with a total capital spend of £70 m last year. Funding sources include £25.25 m awarded through the Government’s Estates Safety Fund – one of the largest allocations in the scheme intended to address critical infrastructure and safety risks. Sources also include an additional £9 m awarded through the Government’s 2025/26 constitutional standards recovery capital funding stream, £29.7 m from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme secured in 2024, and £3 m for imaging machine upgrades announced in March. The trust said: “We are installing a new state-of-the-art MRI scanner at Charing Cross Hospital, as a replacement for one of our existing scanners which is 15-years-old. This is the second scanner we have replaced in the past 12 months (we have three scanners at Charing Cross) and will
Emergency care unit completed at Bedford hospital
improve our diagnostic capability, ultimately help us reduce waiting times. “We are also planning to replace
two further scanners with the latest models, one more at Charing Cross and one at St Mary’s Hospital.” The announcement of the funding will be combined with the Trust’s own capital budget which stands at £60 m for 2025/26. Imperial Health Charity has committed a further £2 m so far for 2025/26 towards schemes to deliver significant improvements in patient and staff experience. With New Hospital Programme
funding delayed for a new St Mary’s and for major refurbishment and redevelopment schemes at Charing
Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, there is a growing need for short term investment to reduce the risk of major estate failures which would have further safety, operational and efficiency impacts, the Trust commented. The cost to eradicate high risk maintenance backlog on the three sites is now over £420 m. Professor Tim Orchard, chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: “Some of our buildings are over 180 years old and we have the largest high risk maintenance backlog of any NHS Trust. We are relieved and grateful to have additional support for managing the safety and operational risks this brings.”
Leeds Trust announce Net Zero plans
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have released their new Green Plan for 2025-2028, developed to guide the Trust on their route to Net Zero by 2040. The Trust have created and
published its third iteration of their Green Plan, which outlines its strategy for achieving Net Zero and becoming one of the greenest Trust’s in the UK.
It said it has significantly reduced
its NHS reportable carbon footprint by 36% since monitoring started in 2013/14. The strategic objectives and actions set out in the Green Plan are underpinned by a range of supporting documents, such as the
Greener Care Plan, the Travel Plan, the Estates Decarbonisation Strategy, a Climate Change Adaptation Plan and the future ambition to deliver the Net Zero building standard ‘Hospitals of the Future’ Project. This targeted approach will continue to ‘steer the Trust on their aspired carbon reduction trajectory’, the Trust says. Craige Richardson, Executive
director of Estates and Facilities said: “Sustainable, low carbon services are crucial to delivering high-quality care for our patients. This Green Plan builds upon the previous two Green Plans we have published and identifies a framework of interventions across nine key focus areas that are needed to help us become one of the greenest NHS hospital Trusts in the UK and, as an Anchor Institution, play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions across Leeds. “Our ambition to achieve Net Zero by 2040 is
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achievable through the delivery of our Sustainable Action Plan, with clear leadership and accountability across the organisation.” Leeds City Council (LCC)
declared a climate emergency in 2019. Chris Kelly, Associate director of Estates Compliance and Risk said: “The Trust has already made significant progress in reducing its carbon footprint and environmental impact through a transition to a more sustainable service delivery model. There are undoubtedly significant challenges ahead to continue to maintain the trajectory required to deliver Net Zero 2040, but this Green Plan and the roadmap of interventions we have laid out are the key milestones to achieve that ambition.” The Trust says it will follow
a structured approach, which details specific actions, timelines and goals, for further embedding sustainability into all aspects of the organisation’s operations over the next three years’.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed a new Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit at Bedford Hospital, designed to expand and improve access to urgent care for the local community. The Trust appointed UK- based construction and digital manufacturing specialist Merit, to design and deliver the facility. The new SDEC unit will offer a wide range of emergency healthcare services specifically designed to address the needs of the local community.
Manufacturing of the unit’s
offsite components began in January at Merit’s smart factory in Cramlington. By using a product- based approach that allowed offsite and onsite works to run in parallel, Merit completed the modern healthcare facility in just eight months. The new SDEC Unit is
dedicated to enhancing patient comfort and optimising the delivery of care, with the goal of reducing waiting times and improving access to immediate medical attention. Its design was developed in close collaboration with clinicians and healthcare professionals to ensure the highest standards of care. Tony Wells, CEO of Merit said:
“The successful completion of the Bedford SDEC Unit in just eight months showcases the success of our innovative UltraPOD SFS solution.”
Melanie Banks, director of
Redevelopment and Strategic Planning at Bedfordshire Hospitals said: “It’s been incredible to see how this project has developed over the past eight months and the how this brand new unit has come to life.”
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