People, Places, Planet: BLMK CARES
Improving health and wellbeing in harmony with the environment
New for July 2025!
The refreshed BLMK Green Plan for 2025-2032 is here! Download the full Green Plan. Find out on our dedicated page how BLMK healthcare organisations plan to improve the health of People, care for our Places, reduce the impact on the Planet, through:
- creating a sustainable healthcare Culture
- Adapting to climate change
- efficient use of Resources
- Environmentally Sustainable service design
We have no choice but to act.
According to the World Health Organisation “climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity“.
Healthcare services generate emissions and pollution, which drives climate change and environmental degradation. This impacts on our health and disrupts services, leading to greater use of healthcare resources.
If we are to succeed in our goal to increase the number of years people spend in good health and reduce the gap between the healthiest and least healthy in our community, we must improve health and wellbeing, reduce emissions and pollution, and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
BLMK healthcare partners and residents have co-developed our new “Green Plan”, which sets out our vision for People, Places, Planet:
People: We will improve health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities, and help our communities adapt to climate change
Places: We will care for our surroundings, supporting the regeneration of the natural environment, and reduce pollution from health and care services.
Planet: We will reduce healthcare-associated greenhouse gas emissions.
Read more about Environmental Sustainability and the BLMK Green Plan on our dedicated pages.
We need all staff to contribute to improving environmental sustainability and working towards net zero – it is part of our work and will help us achieve a better healthcare system. We also welcome support and involvement of our residents and patients.
If you have any suggestions or queries about the ICS Green Plan and what we are doing as a health and care system about environmental sustainability, please contact BLMKICB.sustainability@nhs.net.
Our NHS and partner organisations are all committed to working together to achieve net zero. Expand this section for links to sustainability pages on our partners’ websites
- Bedfordshire Hospitals (BHFT)
- Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS)
- Central and North West London (CNWL)
- East London (ELFT)
- East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST)
- Milton Keynes University Hospitals (MKUH)
- Our local authorities are also committed to environmental sustainability – visit their respective sites for more information