Anil Madan, Non-Residential Marketing manager at Ideal Standard UK and Armitage Shanks, reports on an Armitage Shanks 2024 Water Safety Forum hosted at the London Design and Specification Centre in Clerkenwell, which brought together experts from across the healthcare sector to explore the question, ‘How can the drive to Net Zero in the NHS be compatible with safe water delivery?’
Decarbonising the NHS is a huge and complex challenge, not just because of the size and complexity of the organisation, but also due to the task of reducing emissions without introducing risks to patient safety. The solution will need to bring together professionals from across the healthcare sector alongside contractors and suppliers from the private sector, and will likely come in the form of both technological and procedural progress. Water is at the heart of the challenge, with the NHS required to heat a huge amount of water, and using a huge amount of energy to do so. Water, waste, and building energy contribute 15% towards the total carbon footprint of the service, meaning water has to be a central pillar of carbon reduction efforts.
To address these issues and foster multidisciplinary collaboration, Armitage Shanks brought together experts from across the healthcare sector for its 2024 Water Safety Forum hosted at its London Design and Specification Centre in Clerkenwell. The 2024 Forum was chaired by Elise Maynard, director of the Water Management Society, and an independent microbiologist. The wide-ranging discussion explored the question: 'How can the drive to Net Zero in the NHS be compatible with safe water delivery?
The following experts attended the Forum:
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