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While healthcare estates and facilities teams NHS-wide are acutely aware of the need to reduce their facilities' carbon footprint, obtaining the necessary funding to undertake the substantial improvements to buildings, plant, and equipment, that may, in many cases, be essential to achieving this goal, will remain a challenge for many Trusts for some time to come. Nevertheless, the Government has underlined its intention to support the NHS's carbon reduction efforts, having in late January announced a 50 million pounds capital fund for 2013-2014 'to fund new and innovative projects to improve energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of the NHS'. HEJ reports on this, and a number of other potential funding streams available, to help NHS organisations contribute to the wider carbon-cutting agenda, and examines how bodies such as the Carbon and Energy Fund, and the Carbon Trust, can help both with funding, and via advice and technical support.
