Business sustainability is the consideration and management of environmental, social, and financial factors to ensure responsible, ethical, and ongoing organisational success.
Vita Health Group recognises sustainability as a business approach that will contribute to creating long-term value and positive impact for our service users, customers, colleagues, and the wider society.
As part of our mission of “Making People Better”, our delivery of high-quality patient-focused healthcare services will be underpinned by using all our resources sustainably. Legal requirements create a framework for this activity; however, Vita Health Group is committed to going further than only having a compliance focus, as we will strive for continuous improvement beyond this.
Sustainability is an integral part of our operations, including our planning processes, and it will remain that way to maximise the longevity of our organisation and the reach of its impact. We will demonstrate our sustainable practices to provide assurance to our stakeholders and to hold ourselves to account.
Vita Health Group is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050, in-line with the UK Government’s amended Climate Change Act (2008). In 2019 a target of at least a 100% reduction in the net UK carbon account was introduced.
As a healthcare provider our commitments are also informed by the Greener NHS Campaign and ambitions outlined in the Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service report (2020).
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that have been produced in the past and were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. Baseline emissions are the reference point against which emissions reduction can be measured.
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Due to the nature of our service provision and premises arrangements it has not been practical to obtain a meaningful baseline measure. Vita Health Group is committed to obtaining this data by [01/10/2022] | |
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Reporting Year: 2022 | |
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Comments | Due to the nature of our service provision and premises arrangements it has not yet been practical to obtain a meaningful current emissions measure. Vita Health Group is committed to obtaining this data by [01/10/2022] |
As it has not yet been practical to obtain baseline or current emissions measure, we are unable to provide detailed reduction targets. Once accurate measures are in place, we will adopt several carbon reductions targets to guide our progress to achieving Net Zero.
Key target milestones will be inline with NHS Net Zero Targets:
At this stage we are yet to fully complete any emission reduction projects. However, we have commenced several activities which support our environmental sustainability objectives including:
Due to the noted practicality challenges with measuring emissions across the business we are unable to quantify the reduction achieved by these schemes. In the future we hope to implement further measures as outlined below.
Reduction of emissions from our estates where feasible by:
Reduction of emissions related to travel where feasible by:
Reduction of supply chain emissions where feasible by:
Increasing staff competency around carbon literacy and engagement with carbon reduction agenda by:
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance and reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans. Emissions have yet to been reported, but will be by [01/10/2022] and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions will be reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions will be reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard when the required data is available.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the Vita Health Group Sustainability Working Group.
Date: 28/03/2022
This plan will be reviewed by [01/10/2022].