WINNER: St Andrew’s Healthcare: Growing Spaces to Grow

St Andrew’s hospital in Essex has transformed an overgrown, adjacent piece of land into a sustainable garden and therapeutic space, using 80 per cent recycled materials. The project has been worked on by staff and service users together as a co-production project. The garden features a green gym, shed, polytunnel, wood store and raised beds and has a low carbon footprint.

Read a detailed case study on this project on HSJ Solutions.

Highly commended: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust: Sustainable RCHT

Finalists

  • 63 GPs, Hospitals and Ambulance Services: Reusable Facemask Pilot Project
  • Cambridge University Hospitals FT: Real Ambition, Real Vision, Real Action and Real Outcomes for ‘Net-Zero’ Circular Economy Healthcare
  • Frimley Health FT: Green Ward Competition
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust: Green Plan
  • Manchester University FT: A Manchester Journey to Net Zero Carbon
  • Sheffield Children’s FT: Green Plan
  • Sherwood Forest Hospitals FT: Climate Action Team

Topics

The NHS’s ‘greatest generation’

Alastair Mclellan

The Americans have a name for those who were born between 1901 and 1927. Those who endured the great depression, fought the Second World War and then forged the economic miracle that enshrined the USA as the world’s leading power.