Abstract

Following the adoption of this plan, the New Hospital Programme made net-zero carbon one of the four key priorities for new hospital infrastructure.

As a capital programme, much attention, rightly so, is paid to the embodied carbon of the new facilities and the energy efficiency in use, and all design teams are now well versed in the need for net- zero design.

The planning of these new assets also creates the opportunity for a thoughtful analysis of how and where services are delivered so that new hospitals are right-sized in the first place, where possible, reducing the embodied carbon demand in the first place. 

Looking at services in this holistic way and setting ambitious targets for out- of-hospital care will support the New Hospital Programme’s goal of net-zero carbon hospitals and the NHS’ overall net-zero ambitions.