‘Sustainability in the NHS’ was the title of a first day presentation by Professor Fiona Daly, Sustainability & EFM Workforce lead at NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/NHSI), in the ‘Strategy & Leadership’ steam at October’s Healthcare Estates 2019 conference in Manchester. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Fiona Daly – who was made an Honorary Professor at UCL’s Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management in February 2019 – joined the NHSE/NHSI central Estates & Facilities team in November 2017, and has extensive experience in sustainability. Earlier in her career she was Environmental manager, and, latterly, associate director of Sustainability and Patient Transport, at Barts Health NHS Trust, and prior to joining Barts, was Implementation manager at Skanska UK for seven years. A Board Trustee at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare since January 2017, she was awarded a Master of Science (MSc) in Healthcare Leadership by the University of Birmingham in 2015, and a Senior Healthcare Leadership Award from the NHS Leadership Academy in 2016.
Beginning her address, Prof. Daly said she would be talking through in her presentation the NHSE/NHSI strategy for sustainability, in line with the Government’s latest commitments to ‘Net Zero Carbon’. She explained: “The Government has signed up for the UK to be Net Zero Carbon by 2050, and the Climate Change Act has been aligned to reflect this. This underpins a range of previous and ongoing policies, alongside a need for the NHS to reduce its overall costs and significantly increase its efficiencies. “
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