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NUH awarded £3.7million for Carbon Net Zero Plans and improving patient experience
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is pleased to have been awarded £3.7million as part of government funding to support ongoing work towards reducing our carbon footprint and improving staff and patient experience.
The government has today (5 February) announced that eighty-two NHS trusts, eight military sites and one prison will receive a share of £74 million to adopt clean energy technologies and improve their energy efficiency.
The funding, awarded to NUH through the NHS Energy Efficiency Fund (NEEF), will be used to upgrade and improve the complex building management system at Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), including improving the heating, ventilation and energy systems.
The money will also be used to replace more than 800 lights across our City Hospital campus with more energy-efficient LED bulbs.
Once complete, the project is expected to save an estimated 741 tonnes of CO2 each year – the equivalent of removing 160 cars from Nottingham’s roads – and save the Trust around £840,000 a year.
Due to the improved efficiency of the Building Management System – including upgrading energy units, pumps and valves, and updating computer software – the improvements are predicted to deliver an estimated saving of 2.2million kwh electricity and almost 2million kwh gas.
Alberto Jaume, Programme Manager for Public Sector Decarbonisation Schemes (PSDS) at NUH, said:
“We are very pleased to receive much-needed additional funding to continue our work towards our ambitious 2040 Net Zero Carbon Goal.
“The projects it will fund will enable us to improve the efficiency of the behind-the-scenes nerve system of the QMC, reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
“However, this funding will help us to create more comfortable environments for our patients and staff at our hospitals.”
The NEEF funding is in addition to the PSDS funding NUH has received to deliver a 15-year energy efficiency programme, including installing a renewable geothermal heating and cooling system, as well as new energy saving windows and smarter building controls.
Minister for Energy Consumers Martin McCluskey said:
“More money will go straight to frontline services as hospitals, prisons and military sites benefit from cheaper bills and cutting-edge green technology.
“This is our clean power mission in action – cutting bills, investing in public services and providing energy security for our country.”
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said:
“With lower bills for hospitals, better value for money, and a cleaner, more efficient NHS, everybody wins.
“Every penny of these savings will be redirected straight back into frontline care and delivering an NHS patients, staff and the whole country can be proud of again.
“This investment will help us build an NHS fit for the future.”
Read more about our Net Zero ambitions through our NUH Green Plan: NUH Green Plan 2025-2028 | NUH