CUH Sustainability

14/11/2025

☔Reminder about the CUH drying room ☔

With many staff members embracing active travel options such as cycling and walking, we wanted to ensure that you have facilities to support your commute, regardless of the weather.

The drying room is available for all staff to use on Level 1, and we encourage you to take full advantage of the newly refreshed space. To apply for a padlock to use the lockers, simply contact the Access Office by calling 01223 596060, emailing cuh.access@nhs.net, or visiting their office.

More information can be found on Connect under 'Drying room'.

12/11/2025

Reminder - call 586606 if you have your bicycle is stolen onsite🚲

Bicycle theft is a persistent issue here in Cambridge, and unfortunately, our city ranks second in the country for such incidents. Despite the diligent efforts of our staff at CUH to maintain a safe environment, thefts still occur.

To mitigate this, it's crucial for everyone to lock our bicycles securely, even when using access-controlled storage areas. If your bicycle is ever stolen, please report it to the CUH security team by calling 586606. Reporting incidents not only helps address individual cases but also aids the Trust in tracking theft patterns and developing effective preventive measures.

We remain committed to collaborating with local police to reduce thefts and enhance security onsite. 👮‍♀️

10/11/2025

Did you know that we've got almost 300 members of CUH staff within our car sharing platform? 😱 Is a staff member driving in near you?

KINTO Join, our car sharing partner, helps staff:
💷 Cut travel costs
🚘 Reduce parking congestion
🌍 Reduce carbon footprint

KINTO Join is a app-based platform that offers a fast, digitalised, and easy approach to car sharing. Connections can be made by those who want to be part of the system, and journeys can be booked with fellow staff through an easy-to-navigate messaging board or with the instant booking system (like the process of booking a taxi).

To register, please open this link on your mobile phone https://app.kinto-join.co.uk/. Please ensure you sign up with your nhs.net email address, for instant community approval

07/11/2025

It's never been easier to start your sustainable healthcare journey, and help to ensure that CUH meets its Net-Zero targets!🌍

As a member of our Green Champions Community, you'll be joining a group of 300+ staff, all engaged in ensuring that CUH has a climate-safe future for all.

When becoming a Green Champion, you'll:
👩🏼‍💻Have access to the Teams SharePoint channel which is a central point with everything you should need to make change, empower creativity and connect with others.
🗣Receive automatic calendar invites for our CUH exclusive 'CUH Climate Conversation' talk series (optional).
🏆Receive calendar invites for the monthly catch ups where we celebrate successes, call you to action and open the floor for new ideas and discussion (optional).

Join today by scanning the QR code, following this link, or emailing our team: cuh.thinkgreen .net

05/11/2025

Have you removed easy steals from your bicycle?

Please ensure that you remove your lights, consoles and helmets and take them with you when you arrive into work (they are very quick steals). This includes when locking your bicycle within the access controlled storage. 🚨

04/11/2025

Have you tried Cauli Yet?

For those who haven’t tried it yet, here’s how it works:
🥡 1 - Borrow: Pick a reusable Cauli container for your lunch or drink.
💳 2 - Tap: Scan the QR code on the side of the container and tap your card to leave a £1 deposit.
♻️ 3 - Return: Drop it back at a yellow kiosk within 7 days for a full refund.

Why use Cauli?
🌍 Reduce waste – Help cut down the 1.1 million disposable cups we use annually.
⚡ It’s easy – Quick tap to borrow, quick scan to return.
🌱 Better for the planet – Reusables are far more eco-friendly than single-use items.

03/11/2025

Help shape climate and nature work in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire – share your views🌍 🐝

Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council are creating new strategies to guide how our area responds to the challenges and opportunities of climate change and nature recovery, and they want to hear from you!

Have your say by following the link before 9th November: https://engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/climate-and-nature-strategies

03/11/2025

With 75% of the CUH carbon footprint, and in the region of 11.5 tonnes of waste everyday, embedded in the supply and disposal of what we consume, it is critical to seek out opportunities to reduce it. Doing so will help us to reduce costs, carbon and help CUH become a more resilient hospital in the face of a changing climate.🌍

In practice, spotting waste reduction opportunities (also known as 'lifecycle thinking') is just about ask yourself and your team some straight-talking sustainability questions:

- Do we actually need this? and this much of it? could we safely manage with less?
- Is it single-use and, if so, is there a reusable option?
- Can we get it repaired if it breaks?
- If it’s equipment, can we get it refilled, refurbished or send it back for remanufacture?
- If I have to throw it away, can I help get it recycled as effectively as possible?

Got an idea? Great! Let us know by filling in this form: https://www.cuhconnect.nhs.uk/working-at-cuh/about-us/think-green/sustainable-consumables-development-forum/sustainable-consumables-development-forum-ideas/

We'll try to turn your idea into reality!💚

29/10/2025

Have your say on CBC travel! 🚌🚲

The Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) Travel and Transport Group would like to gather information from staff about their journeys to work and at work, so that they can understand changing travel needs and determine how they should invest in new transport initiatives, particularly to encourage greater use of sustainable travel modes.

To have your say simply follow this link or scan the QR code: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/cbctravelsurvey2025/

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge Biomedical Campus

27/10/2025

With these new solar panels we’ll continue to move in the right direction in meeting our Net-Zero targets, and build resilience into how our hospital operates! ☀️⚡️

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant to install solar panels on rooftops across our estate, which will help to generate clean power and deliver reductions in energy costs ☀️

Thanks to Great British Energy and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 34 NHS trusts awarded funding will see estimated combined lifetime energy bill savings of up to £65 million over the next 30 years, to be reinvested in frontline services.

Read more on our website: https://orlo.uk/HJrfq