Trusts and ICBs face significant pressure to deliver both cost savings and carbon reductions, which often conflict and add strain to already overstretched teams.
Calculating supply chain emissions is particularly challenging due to inconsistent supplier reporting, the complexity of NHS supply chains, and the sheer volume of data involved. Most NHS teams lack the capability, specialist expertise, and resources to accurately map carbon emissions.
Our team of specialists can review your data for you, providing you with a clear supply chain emissions figure, an insights report and emissions per supplier.
In alignment with the GHG Protocol, the global standard for measuring emissions, we use a hybrid methodology to calculate your supply chain emissions by combining financial data and publicly available supplier emissions data, before verifying the figures with Carbon Footprint UK.
We categorise your key suppliers into low, medium, and high risk based on their progress towards net zero emissions, helping to guide your engagement.
Our insights report provides you with actionable recommendations on how to drive change throughout your supply chain, and if you need support to deliver these changes, our team of consultants can help.
Featured Case study
From Data to Decarbonisation
Analysed 1,877 suppliers, identifying the top ten emitters which account for 63% of their Scope 3 emissions at Worcestershir...
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How this service will support you:
Tangible Insights
Opportunity to begin reducing supply chain emissions in areas of genuine impact. We incorporate key suppliers’ data into the calculations, highlighting high risk suppliers to guide your engagement.
Consistency
A consistent reportable output, so you can compare and see macro trends, with the option to repeat annually.
Delivering Efficiencies
A cost effective digital solution that can be delivered quickly and efficiently, reducing time investment in areas that add less value.
Collaboration
Available at both Trust and ICS level, enabling collaborative working and supporting collectively lowering emissions, increasing efficiencies, and reducing investment in resources.
Endorsed Methodology
Our methodology is verified by Carbon Footprint UK.
Sustainability and Social Value Specialists
Service is delivered at pace by our carbon specialists, providing assurance of figures.
Release resource
Our team review your carbon data for you, and we offer optional implementation support if you need it, so you can focus on other value-add priorities and delivering front line care.
NHS experts
As the only organisation delivering the service with extensive knowledge of NHS procurement, we are uniquely placed to deliver actionable insights that work with the supply chain, not against it.
“It was very apparent that [through the Carbon Mapping Specialist Service] NHS SBS could not only offer a standardised approach, but could also deliver additional value by being able to compare data sets to enable good decision making, and to help explore strengths and weaknesses of individual sites and Trusts.
As data availability grows and is combined with financial information, the value and significance of the information will drive results that benefit the trust financial whilst beginning to make a significant difference to our carbon footprint, and ultimately help reduce the damaging choices we make.”
Stephen Carter
Head of Procurement
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Sustainability Case Studies
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Why Partner with us?
Created as a unique joint venture with the Department of Health and Social Care, our sole purpose is to deliver the most cost effective and highest quality shared services to the NHS. Our scale and scope are unparalleled.
As a trusted partner for the public sector for 20 years, find out how we can help improve your public services
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