Estates |
Lower the environmental impact of our estate. |
Maximise benefits from the Leeds Hub move. |
Current estate footprint is large. |
Consider resilience issues - Leeds Hub flood risk. Current Leeds estate will be rationalised to efficient Leeds Hub, |
Travel |
Reduce business travel and increase the use of virtual collaboration tools |
Organisational travel reduction |
Developing use of full virtual meeting tool functionality |
Retain positive travel reductions from COVID into permanent change. |
Commercial |
Manage and reduce the environmental and social impact of procurement activities. |
Formalise sustainable procurement interventions, such as FCAP checks. Carbon footprint setting in procurement. |
Resource provision in commercial areas |
Learn from NHSE to better implement sustainable procurement tools. New commercial group - potential resource increase to allow focus. |
Internal ICT |
Reduce the impact of internal ICT choices and practices. |
Take part in the Pan-Gov Sustainable Technology (STAR) processes, maximise Circular Economy processes, consider upstream ethical and critical raw material resilience issues. |
STAR processes and buying in new ICT equipment instead of buying refurbished (culture change task) |
Cost in embodied carbon into procurement decisions, |
NHSD-delivered products and services |
Lower the impact of products and services delivered by NHS Digital through sustainable and resilient architecture and IG practices. Ensure our services are resilient to future climate challenges. |
Deliver against Enterprise Architecture sustainability principle. Embed climate risk and implement Information Governance data retention policy. |
Enforcement of principles - and in legacy systems |
Rationalisation of systems |
Cross-system technology consumption |
Through NHS Digital’s contribution, optimise cross-system technology consumption (focused on infrastructure and cloud). |
Cross-system infrastructure optimisation; cloud migration, embedding sustainability and resilience in framework creation. |
Quicker implementation of good practice. |
Work with NHS X on tech consumption strategy, trust level enterprise to cloud migration. |
Cross-system enablement of sustainable health and social care |
Contribute to digital and technology services that enable downstream sustainability and resilience improvements across health and social care |
Greener NHS Net Zero Plan, benefits work (green book), embedding sustainability into user design |
Resource provision across NHS Digital operations – required approach to sustainable tech delivery . |
Product delivery in-line with EA service design principles – sustainability criteria. |
Sustainability culture |
Cement sustainability as a core essential priority. |
Delivering against the sustainability commitments within the People Plan and the organisation’s comms strategy and the sustainability comms plan. |
Provide resources and time for staff to participate in culture change activities. |
Create a climate emergency literate workforce. Link sustainability to the equality’s agenda. New group required. |