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Sustainability

Our commitment to sustainability starts with our purpose: "Helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world". 

Bupa's Mission Zero

2025

Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions across our global operation by at least 40%.

2030

Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by at least 46% across our direct operations.

2034

Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions that we are indirectly responsible for by at least 63%.

2040

Become a net zero business across all our emissions.

What is Mission Zero?

Bupa’s commitment to sustainability starts with its purpose: "Helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world".

We understand that when our planet is healthy, so are our people.

One of Bupa’s primary ambitions is to reach net zero emissions across the business by 2040. As a member of the Bupa family, Cromwell Hospital is committed to implementing sustainable solutions that help achieve this goal.

Mission Zero is underpinned by rigorous science-based targets, which have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). 

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How is Cromwell Hospital working to achieve Mission Zero?

Our sustainability initiatives are spearheaded by the Cromwell Hospital GREEN Team, a group of environmentally minded hospital staff. Collectively, they work to:

  • Promote and champion the importance of sustainability at Cromwell Hospital, leading on carbon reduction initiatives and supporting Bupa’s aim to become net zero. 
  • Promote sustainability initiatives that our people can adopt both at work and at home.
  • Work in partnership with suppliers to reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact. 
  • Give our people a voice and a platform to share ideas on how we can be more sustainable, both at the hospital and across Bupa.
  • Help influence policies, procedures and practices that impact on sustainability.
  • Share our progress, successes, and ideas across the hospital and Bupa. 
  • Provide a social and cultural space for GREEN Team members to support and empower each other. 
  • Set strategies and goals for sustainability, and track progress on these to report into the Bupa UK climate working group. 

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Contact the GREEN Team

The Cromwell Hospital GREEN Team investigates ways that we can reduce our carbon footprint.

 

We'll keep you informed about our work via this page, which showcases all the great work being done to achieve our net zero goal.

 

If you have any ideas or thoughts, please send us an email.

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The GREEN Team with an anaesthetic recycling device
The GREEN Team with an anaesthetic recycling device
The GREEN Team promoting World Recycling Day
The GREEN Team promoting World Recycling Day

Our sustainability initiatives

Discover some of the recent sustainable solutions we've implemented at the hospital.

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Eliminating single-use plastic

Coffee cup recycling

We installed a new coffee cup recycling station next to our Ground Floor coffee shop. Staff and visitors can now place their used coffee cups into the holder for recycling. We currently recycle 12,000 coffee cups and water cups each quarter in the restaurant. 

Sustainable water system

We introduced a new patient water system, eliminating the 140,000 plastic water bottles that the hospital was providing to patients on an annual basis. More recently, we have replaced the plastic water cups across all water machines with a recyclable option.

Keep Cup scheme

We re-launched our Keep Cup scheme, encouraging staff and visitors to use their own recyclable cups at the coffee shop. 

Printer cartridge recycling

We initiated a program where we collect used printer cartridges across the whole hospital. We package the used cartridges and send them off to companies such as HP and Cartridge Save for recycling.

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Sustainable equipment and infrastructure

Sustainable scrubs

We teamed up with Upcycled Medical, who create scrubs and uniforms from recycled ocean waste. We have also introduced a bariatric gown made from wood pulp. 

Anaesthetic gas recycling

We implemented SageTech Medical’s innovative medical device across our theatres, which captures and recycles waste anaesthetic gases, preventing them from polluting the atmosphere.

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Improved air conditioning units

Work is underway on the replacement of the hospital’s air handling units, which will reduce our carbon emissions by 300 tons per year whilst improving the ventilation throughout the hospital. 

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About Bupa eco-Disruptive

Bupa's eco-Disruptive challenge (opens in a new window)is a global talent and innovation programme designed to find and support scalable start-ups with sustainability solutions. 

Each year, teams of Bupa employees are assigned one of six challenge areas and tasked with finding potential start-ups to collaborate with. Cromwell Hospital employees regularly participate as part of these teams.

In 2022, SageTech Medical became one of the challenge's latest success stories. SageTech Medical created a system for recycling waste anaesthetic gases, which has now been implemented across the hospital's theatres.

Find out more about eco-Disruptive (opens in a new window) >

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