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NHS + N3 = Sustainability: Broadband heralds a healthier planet
Challenge
The NHS Sustainable Development Unit has committed to assuring a 10 per cent reduction in NHS carbon emissions by 2015
Solution
The N3 network allows the NHS to efficiently move clinical information to where it’s needed, speeding up decision making and improving efficiency
Value
Innovative use of broadband network technology is a key enabler for reduced patient and clinician travel and higher quality healthcare
Clinicians Confront Climate Challenge
The NHS is the largest UK public sector climate change contributor, generating 18 million tonnes of CO2 every year. About one fifth of that is transport related, because traditional clinical processes require patients and staff to meet each other.
Dr. David Pencheon, Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, says: “One thing we can do, instead of moving all those people around, is to move information around. That’s where the huge importance of network technology – such as the N3 broadband network provided by BT – is so influential.”
The Sustainable Development Unit is tasked with providing leadership in the NHS to help the UK government meet its goal of an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Dr. Pencheon adds: “Towards that target we have set ourselves a milestone of a 10 per cent reduction in NHS carbon emissions by no later than 2015.”
N3 has been working closely with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and NHS trusts to find ways to use broadband to lower their carbon emissions and transform their ways of working. This case study relates the experiences of three such forward-looking NHS bodies.
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