Healthcare
Reducing environmental impact in healthcare
The World Health Organization has called climate change “the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century”, as it affects the social and environmental determinants of health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today and in the UK, the health impact of air pollution generated by human activities each year costs the NHS billions of pounds. As a result, healthcare institutions have begun to develop and implement approaches to sustainable development closely aligned to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In order to deliver these approaches, the healthcare sector needs reliable providers of sustainable solutions to help it overcome its major challenges.
RSK works through its well-established subsidiaries in the healthcare sector and has quickly gained a reputation as a solutions provider, whether for primary- or secondary-care estates or mental health facilities. We are conscious that healthcare organisations face major challenges in construction and estate management, especially more recently with the push towards the New Hospital Programme/Hospital 2.0 and the inclusion of targets for a net-zero-carbon standard and reducing the environmental impacts of estates. RSK helps tackle this challenge through a nature-based solutions approach, which aims to protect, manage and restore natural ecosystems in ways that also benefit biodiversity and human wellbeing.
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In addition to meeting their carbon targets, NHS trusts have to increase asset efficiency and utilisation while managing an ageing property portfolio with maintenance backlogs and capital work underspending. RSK understands these challenges and can help clients to develop, maintain, improve, renew and dispose of their property assets.
RSK prides itself on a responsive, pragmatic approach and a deep understanding of clients’ needs. This enables us to provide comprehensive support and to identify opportunities that have positive effects on programme, cost and risk. As a leading provider of environmental and site investigation services to infrastructure projects and construction and property programmes, RSK has excellent geographical coverage across the UK.
Our ever-expanding business includes one of the largest consultancy offerings in the UK coupled with a suite of complementary contracting services. Collectively, we deliver added value across the life cycle of a project through an unrivalled package of services available from pre-acquisition and planning through to post-construction.
We help clients in the healthcare sector at every stage of a property’s lifespan, including development, maintenance, improvement, asset renewal and disposal. RSK is appointed to several procurement routes for healthcare and NHS clients, providing a direct award opportunity and the confidence you have selected the right team. UK healthcare organisations can access RSK’s services through various supply agreements and frameworks, including:
- NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) HPCCAS framework
- NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) Consultancy and Associated Services framework
- Constructionline
For details of the RSK Group’s added-value approach and the specific services it provides aligned to each of the development stages of a healthcare project, our brochures and project examples are below.