Launching our Sustainable Travel Plan

We are delighted to announce the launch of our Sustainable Travel Plan for 2022-2025. This plan details all the sustainable travel focused work Sheffield Children’s will be doing over the next few years, while on the road to reach our aim of carbon net zero by 2045. 

Did you know that in 2020/21, visitors travelled almost 5 million miles to our sites in total, with an enormous 72% of those miles in a car? This equates to travelling around the earth 200 times! It is our aim to lower this and reach carbon net zero from patient and visitor related travel by 2045 at the latest.

Reducing emissions associated with traveling helps to lower the levels of air pollution in the area. Air pollution has negative impacts on our health, especially impacting children and young people.

Travelling to our Trust sites

We understand that as well as the cost of living, the rising costs of fuel in the country are affecting everyone. Alongside the plan, we have developed our travelling to Trust sites page on our website for patients, families and carers, giving you all the options and information you need to travel for your appointments and care (including video appointments) and we will be including this link in appointment letters.

We are also setting up ‘no idling engines’ signage and cycle storage signage in the turning circle at Western Bank and spared some time for a chat with Youth Forum member Ruthie on her experiences with video appointments.

What about staff?

We have launched a new Travel Smart hub on our intranet, giving colleagues practical tips and advice to start their green journey to work now if they haven’t already, along with a 2022 colleague travel survey.