University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Organisation Bio

UHP's vision is to provide excellent care, with compassion, wrapped around people’s individual needs

Together with our partners we will develop nationally leading integrated health and care, unlocking better outcomes and reducing inequalities, and develop UHP as a regional specialist centre to improve lives across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall

UHP has a unique role, one of few trusts in the country to fulfil four distinct roles in the peninsula health and care system – spanning community and social care, mental health, acute and through to specialist and tertiary services.

What we provide

We are responsible for providing care across the widest of spectrums: from within people’s homes and working with our voluntary sector partners in local communities, to offering the most specialist hospital care available in our regional centre.

The south west peninsula geography gives our Trust a secondary care catchment population of 475,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy.

About our climate journey

Acting responsibly and reducing the impact we have on our environment is an important consideration for the Trust, from the way we care for our patients, to ensuring we have a strong, financial and sustainable system in place. As a large acute healthcare organisation, we are committed to actively delivering our contribution to reduce carbon emissions and embed sustainability into everything we do. Climate change is globally recognised as the greatest environmental and economic threat faced by the national governments and individuals. It is also an opportunity for us to make those sustainable improvements, ensuring we use resources responsibly.

Since the publication of the Trust’s Green Plan ‘For a Greener Future’ in 2020, we have taken steps to embed sustainability into Trust culture and operations. Our initial focus has been on engaging our staff and seeking views as to how we can become a more sustainable organisation. A governance structure has been set up with a dedicated Sustainability Sub-Committee, and specific working groups whose purpose has been to drive the aims and objectives set out in the Green Plan.