hospitals

RePower Ukraine Christmas Campaign to support hospitals facing blackouts and severe cold

Energy

RePower Ukraine Christmas Campaign to support hospitals facing blackouts and severe cold

Foundation promoting renewable energy for Ukraine creates Amazon wish list featuring portable heaters and warm blankets

clock 19 December 2025 • 3 min read
GB Energy confirms first NHS Trusts to benefit from £180m solar funding

Solar

GB Energy confirms first NHS Trusts to benefit from £180m solar funding

Government reveals hospitals, ambulance hubs, and primary schools to benefit from latest wave of clean energy investment

clock 26 September 2025 • 4 min read
Hospitals have huge environmental footprints – here's how they can be more sustainable

Buildings

Hospitals have huge environmental footprints – here's how they can be more sustainable

Better building design based on retrofit and fabric first approaches and better operational flexibility can help cut the NHS's environmental footprint, argues James Scott Vandeventer from Manchester Metropolitan University

clock 02 May 2025 • 5 min read
GB Energy backs solar for schools, hospitals and communities with £200m investment

Solar

GB Energy backs solar for schools, hospitals and communities with £200m investment

Publicly-owned clean power investment company announces first ever investment, which is expected to help cut NHS and school energy bills in England by £400m over 30 years

clock 21 March 2025 • 8 min read
Rye community hospital ditches fossil gas boilers in net zero drive

Energy

Rye community hospital ditches fossil gas boilers in net zero drive

EXCLUSIVE: Rye, Winchelsea & District Memorial Hospital believes it is on course to become the UK’s first 'carbon neutral' community hospital

clock 21 August 2023 • 3 min read

Supply chain

NHS becomes world's first health system to commit to net zero

Plan includes a string of new targets and commits NHS to reducing emissions under its direct control to net zero by 2040, before bringing its supply chain footprint in line by 2045

clock 01 October 2020 • 4 min read

Energy

Green energy measures could save public sector £375m a year, Centrica estimates

Study by energy giant suggests cost and energy savings across public sector that would result from installing solar panels, LED lighting, and low carbon heating measures would run to £5.6bn over 15 years

clock 17 September 2019 • 2 min read

Climate change

Net zero: Global healthcare sector emits more than 500 coal power plants

Climate impact of global healthcare sector laid bare in study which argues disease prevention and net zero efforts should be closely linked

clock 10 September 2019 • 3 min read

Policy

Study: 10.5 million patients visiting UK hospitals in areas with dirty air

Study by UK100 and British Lung Foundation prompts calls for action to reduce transport and industrial emissions in cities

clock 19 August 2019 • 3 min read