REGENERATION
IT’S TIME TO REVIEW YOUR BUSINESS TRAVEL POLICIES Many things have changed since the pandemic, and possibly the biggest change is to working patterns. Permanent home-working or hybrid seem to be here to stay, which generates major changes to business travel.
policies they had pre-pandemic are going to work in a post-pandemic world.
Companies must think innovatively about how their people travel, and if the mobility
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Allowing employees to use their own cars and reclaim mileage allowances, known as “grey fleet,” is costly, at a time when businesses are working hard to recover.
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Businesses are increasingly being pressed to reduce CO2 emissions and staff-use of older cars may conflict with corporate targets and ambitions.
Employees are commuting less, and business journeys may now involve more use of personal cars. We know from research and experience that many privately owned cars are older, more polluting models which will fall foul of the growing number of low emission zones being created around the country. This will be of concern to companies for a number of reasons:
These issues are leading many corporates to take a closer look at their approach to
WORKING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT OUR TRUST AND TO SAVE MORE LIVES
who pulled together to help our charity to generate funds to support them. You can find more information about how we invested the funds raised here (https:/ /fb.watch/b0TNbOvwSt/)
Hospitals nationally have faced immense pressures over the past 2.5 years, and our staff at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have worked tirelessly through a time that they have never quite experienced before.
As we transition out of the pandemic and look forward to moving into our incredible new Royal Liverpool Hospital, our charity will also undergo a little change. Some of you reading this may remember us as ‘R Charity’ but after our trust merged with Aintree University Hospitals, and regenerated itself with a new name, we’ve become Liverpool University Hospitals Charity. Whilst the wellbeing of our staff and patients will continue to be a priority, we look forward to investing funds raised into innovation to ensure that our trust has world class equipment, services and environments to treat and save more lives.
Throughout all of this, our priority as Liverpool University Hospitals Charity has of course been to raise funds to support and improve the lives and wellbeing of our patients and our incredibly hardworking staff. We will forever be blown away by our Merseyside community and beyond
We’re planning what we hope will be our biggest charity evening to date on Friday 30th September at the Titanic Hotel & Rum Warehouse, and it would be incredible to have the support from Chamber members. We may be biased, but our Charity Ball is always incredible!
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business travel policies, and to set controls in place that ensure employee choices actively contribute to safer travel and a greener environment. Enterprise Car Club is a key part of the travel policy of many businesses. Employees have access to modern, low emission vehicles and employers can choose how to structure the service to meet their needs. The vehicles can be based at a company’s premises for exclusive use, a dedicated service, or employees can access Enterprise’s nationwide car club fleet. In Liverpool, we have a number of vehicles around the city and work closely with the council who use this service. Booking and access to vehicles via an app makes the process simple and convenient and means businesses only pay when a vehicle is needed. We know that business travel is vital in driving our recovery, while at the same time transport and travel remains under the spotlight as the government presses ahead with its decarbonisation policy. The good news is that innovation is ensuring the number of sustainable, low and zeroemission travel options are increasing. To find out more about the Enterprise Car Club please contact Kate Jones on kate.l.jones@ehi.com We are extremely grateful to our Headline Sponsors Avrenim Group Ltd and If Finishes, and we look forward to celebrating significant milestones and successes for our LUHFT and Charity, what we have achieved and hope to achieve for our trust and most importantly for our patients. We would love for you to be a part of this special event because together we can achieve something incredible for our patients. For more information, to book your table at our ball, or to arrange a catch up about how we might work together collaboratively to support our trust and to save more lives, please email aimee.clare@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
