Annual Report 2009 -2010 - Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Sustainability and InnovationDoing our bit for the environmentBelfast Trust is committed to reducing our carbon footprint. Our annual utilities bill is £15 millionand although most of this is utilised in providing essential services, it is estimated that 15% if thiscost could be saved if we encouraged staff to think differently about energy consumption. This iscomplimented by changes in technology that allow us to deliver more efficient engineering practices.The benefits of encouraging each of us who work for the Trust to ‘think before turning on’ will notonly have immediate benefits within the Trust, but it will help instigate the same thoughtprocesses in each of the 20,000 staff homes across Belfast and will deliver benefits to the environmenton top of what Belfast Trust is achieving.Innovative improvements have included bringing environmental awareness training to all 20,000members of staff in conjunction with statutory fire lectures. Engineering advances have enabledwaste heat recovery plants to deliver £250,000 of savings on the Trust’s gas bill equating to a netreduction of approximately 800 tonnes of carbon being emitted annually into the atmosphere.Building for successThis year the Trust has relocated services to three new buildings, all of which were completed in2010. Each of them has enhanced the environment in which we provide services to patients andclients.Inpatient mental health services for young people is now provided at Beechcroft which is locatedon the Forster Green site.The Iveagh Centre has opened at Broadway which is an inpatient assessment and treatment unitfor children with learning disabilities.A new older person’s day centre opened in March in the Enler Centre as part of a regenerationproject in the Ballybeen estate, east Belfast.35