Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has entered an Energy Performance Contract with Veolia-Cynergin under which the latter will deliver a wide range of measures designed to lower carbon emissions and energy costs at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital, and Kidderminster Hospital.
The upgrades will support the NHS Trust’s five-year Sustainable Development Strategy and Implementation Plan, and include a plan for combined heat and power plants, boiler replacement, conversion to low temperature hot water from steam, and a low energy lighting retrofit.
Ray Cochrane, the Trust’s head of Estates, said: “This relatively new and innovative approach to funding and managing important aspects of our Sustainability and Improvement Plan has the additional benefit of directly influencing both our backlog maintenance and our Lord Carter obligations. The work will no doubt reduce our energy consumption and carbon footprint, while directly benefiting the patient, visitor, and staff experience by creating an improved, and significantly more efficient, healthcare environment.”
