Britain's Greenest Hospital

Here at UHSM, we have staked our claim as Britain’s greenest hospital. Management are highly conscious of the urgent need to reduce our carbon footprint, so over the past few months we have taken many measures to do this, and there are several more in the pipeline:

• More efficient lighting, heat exchangers and building controls are just some of the improvements that have resulted in an overall energy reduction of 26% since the introduction of carbon management in 2007/8.
• The recent addition of a biomass boiler – a first for a North West hospital – which will reduce annual CO2 emissions by a further 3,459 tonnes, and will be equivalent to the emissions associated with 494 domestic properties.
• A second, smaller 200 kilowatt biomass boiler, which has been operating in our state of the art Cardiac Centre for three years, and makes the Centre self sufficient in terms of its heating needs.
• The installation of ground source heating pumps in our newly-completed Cystic Fibrosis Unit, which are proving extremely energy efficient.
• Car share and cycle to work schemes, which operate among staff to reduce carbon footprinting to and from UHSM.
• A commitment by the Trust Board to maintain a robust sustainability policy.

Please see the links on the left-hand side of the page for information about some of the above schemes, and other various Green actions that have taken place here at UHSM.