Kent and Medway's integrated care system unites NHS, councils, and community sectors to address climate change and enhance public health. Explore partner sustainability strategies and discover collaborative efforts for long-term wellbeing and environmental impact.
The trust's green plan is a commitment to reduce its impact on the environment and to deliver sustainable healthcare. It will work with patients, staff, local communities and partners to put the organisation on a path to a cleaner, greener, healthier and more equitable future.
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Green Plan
Kent County Council (KCC) is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its own estate, operations and wholly owned traded services to net zero by 2030.
KCC is one of very few local authorities in the country to have achieved the International Standard for Environmental Management (ISO14001) and have held this standard since 2009.
Kent County Council net zero action plan
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) is committed to principles of transparency and sustainability.
In the trust's first sustainability strategy there is a focus primarily but not exclusively, on the use of natural resources as a building block to have far-reaching, positive impacts on colleagues and communities.
The trust's green plan provides details of its approach to sustainable development.
It outlines projects and activities including staff awareness and engagement, waste reduction and reducing the carbon emissions associated with service delivery and estate operations.
Medway Council is committed to achieving next zero in Medway by 2050. The council has developed an action plan to ensure it plays its part in addressing the climate emergency.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust aspires to make substantial improvements to the sustainability of its operations.
Its green plan provides an organisation-wide strategy that outlines a plan of action for 2021/26, in line with the trust's vision and objectives.
It aims to deliver more sustainable healthcare; improving the quality of care while enhancing resiliance, sustainability and wellbeing in preparation for future pressures and challenges.
Medway Foundation Trust Green Plan
NHS Kent and Medway is committed to ensuring it creates and embeds sustainable models of care and delivery throughout the services it commissions.
Ensuring its own operations and estate are working towards local, national and global ambitions to address the greatest challenge ever faced by healthcare.
Our vision is to see sustainability at the heart of everything we do, providing first class patient care in the most sustainably conscious way.
Kent and Medway ICB Green Plan 2024 to 2029
Executive summary to the Kent and Medway ICB Green Plan 2024 to 2029
The trust will deliver a clear, co-ordinated approach to managing and improving environmental impacts of its activities.
This will ensure that it achieves a standard of sustainable development that will have positive impacts on health, expenditure, efficiency, and the environment in response to climate change.
Mental Health Matters have laid out their carbon reduction plan which includes a commitment to achieving net zero by 2030.
Its plan contains several proposals to lessen the impact on the climate and environment including reducing their carbon footprint on transport, estates and through their supply chain.