Reducing food waste and going paperless forms part by Bolton NHS Foundation Trust's plan to go green.
The Trust, which runs Royal Bolton Hospital, has unveiled its Green Plan to meet NHS England’s 2045 net zero targets.
This includes 30 priority actions to take between 2025 and 2030 across 10 focus areas.
Already the trust has planted more trees and removed single use plastic cutlery.
In the Green Plan’s foreword, Chief Finance Officer and Net Zero Board Lead at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Annette Walker, said: “We are committed to delivering continuously improving, sustainable healthcare. My senior leadership colleagues and I are fully behind our Green Plan and to the work involved in the NHS becoming carbon net zero.
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“We have already made great progress during the last Green Plan, and the Trust and our staff continue to make small everyday changes to become more sustainable, and through our new Green Plan we will continue to adapt to more environmentally sound practices.
“As a large Trust that touches many areas across Bolton, we have a significant environmental impact, and it is important that we address this now rather than later.”
Priority actions include establishing a multidisciplinary working group responsible for reducing emissions in clinical areas, continuing the move towards a paperless, technology focused hospital and trailing innovative ways to reduce food waste.
The priority actions are to take between 2025 and 2030 across 10 areas of focus including travel and transport, medicines, food and nutrition and workforce and leadership.
Healthcare in England is estimated to contribute between 4% and 5% of national carbon emissions, and ambitious strategies are needed to reduce these emissions, and limit the effect of climate change.
Bolton’s NHS Trust has already made a number of achievements under its previous Green Plan for 2022-2025, including 250 trees planted across the Royal Bolton Hospital site, the use of recycled content paper for all office-based functions and the removal of single-use crockery.
Since January 2025, the Trust has also secured funding to install solar panels across the hospital, decommission nitrous oxide manifolds, investigate electric vehicle charging for the NHS and iFM fleet, and to prepare a heat decarbonisation plan.
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