The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

Sustainability report

Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme The Trust was awarded £9.5m to fund the installation of a multi technology energy solution comprising heat pumps, solar, battery storage and lighting upgrades which will improve energy supply resilience to the hospital, reduce carbon emissions by 999 tonnes a year, and save over £1m in energy bills. This innovative scheme will support our long term strategy of converting our heating medium to low carbon heat generation technologies in order for us to support the NHS goal of net zero NHS Carbon Footprint by 2040. Anaesthetic Gases Desflurane is known to be significantly more harmful to the environment than sevoflurane.

The nationally driven target is to reduce the percentage of cases using desflurane as the anaesthetic vapour to 5% or less (i.e. anaesthesia maintained by regional methods, TIVA or sevoflurane in 95% or more cases). To support this, desflurane is no longer made routinely available and therefore must be requested to be put onto an anaesthetic machine. Reducing Local Air Pollution The Trust has expanded the electric vehicle charge point provision. An additional twelve sockets have been added onsite to bring the total available to fourteen. These charge points have been future proofed to support the provisional for additional points as demand increases.

2021/2022 Overall summary

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