One of the borough’s largest employers, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) – which runs Ealing Hospital in Southall, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal and Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow – has unveiled a three-year strategy to cut its carbon footprint and prepare for the growing impacts of climate change.
The trust, which employs more than 9,000 people across Ealing, Brent and Ealing, aims to help deliver a Net Zero NHS by 2040. Its new Green Plan, covering 2025–28, will target improvements in areas from estates and medicine to travel, transport, waste and resources.
Planned measures include increasing domestic waste recycling rates by 50%, expanding the use of reusable equipment and PPE, ensuring suppliers on contracts worth more than £5m have carbon reduction plans, and cutting overprescribing and pharmaceutical waste.
The strategy builds on LNWH’s first Green Plan in 2022, which reduced emissions, secured more than £13m in decarbonisation funding, and improved waste segregation and recycling.
Pippa Nightingale, LNWH’s chief executive, said: ‘This is a trust-wide effort. Every member of our workforce has a role to play. We are not only responding to climate change but helping shape a healthier and more resilient future for our communities.’
The trust says extreme heat and severe weather are already disrupting NHS services. In 2022, almost half of NHS hospitals in England closed wards or services due to flooding, power cuts and structural problems. One in five hospitals cancelled operations that year after cooling and ventilation systems failed during 40C-plus temperatures. Heat-related deaths cost the NHS £6.8m annually.
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