Honouring 75 Years of the NHS

Patient care is the number one priority. Working across 230 NHS customers and sites has strengthened our understanding of the solutions Veolia provides when offering sector-specific services that address environmental needs. To mark this milestone, we look at how we have done that across the sector’s water, waste and energy

Operating large, complex, and energy-hungry facilities requires significant contributions to reducing carbon impact while creating a comfortable environment for patients and staff. We currently provide energy and facility management to over 100 hospitals around the UK. Our innovative projects, such as installing hydrogen-ready boilers, have helped hospitals cut carbon and achieve sustainability goals. Our unique service offering for clinical alternative treatment (AT) waste delivers carbon savings of up to 73% to support the NHS in significantly achieving its carbon reduction goals.

See how we helped decarbonise Eastbourne District General Hospital: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=oYeMnPYVmFs

Taking care of critical services: Our facilities management teams ensure hospital facilities run smoothly and efficiently so that NHS teams can continue to focus on their duties. We service many hospitals, from safety and cleaning services to infrastructure, waste and energy management to reduce carbon emissions, increase recycling rates and improve the sustainability of the facilities.

Clinical waste:

Clinical waste must be responsibly collected and disposed of safely. Using information from pre-acceptance audits, we identify materials that are incorrectly classified as clinical waste and which, with proper segregation, can be recycled. Working closely with our materials recycling team, we investigate solutions to capture identified streams for recycling, moving materials up the waste hierarchy. We divert offensive waste from landfill using our ERF facilities to process the waste. We have undertaken significant investment in our Tyseley and Sheffield ERF facilities enabling us to compliantly process orange bag waste via these ERFs as opposed to traditional autoclave routes avoiding the emissions generated from autoclaving and delivering carbon savings of up to 73%.

All waste streams processed through the ERF generate electricity to power local homes and businesses and heat for district heating networks used to heat local buildings, including some local hospitals, providing a unique and genuinely circular solution where the hospital’s clinical waste is effectively powering its electricity and heating. We look forward to following the progress of the NHS and continuing our partnerships in building a greener future for the healthcare sector. L www.veolia.co.uk/sectors/healthcare