Sustainability

Sustainability at Beacon Hospital

At Beacon Hospital we recognise that caring for our patients is interlinked with caring for the world around us. The health of our planet and our environment directly influences the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Sustainability at Beacon Hospital means delivering the highest standards of patient care while actively working to both reduce our environmental impact and support our social community.

Across the hospital, we are engaged in a range of projects and initiatives to minimise our carbon footprint, strengthen our social responsibility and promote a healthier, more sustainable future.

Here are some of our Sustainability Initiatives:

Beacon Hospital have established a Sustainability Committee, chaired by our Head of Sustainability. The Committee meets monthly to set priorities, monitor progress and guide the implementation of sustainability projects across the hospital.

We recognise that the key to embedding sustainability throughout the hospital is education. We have developed sustainability training for all staff in order to raise awareness and highlight areas for improvement.

In 2025, the Sustainability Committee launched a Sustainability Champions Network for all staff members across the hospital to share their ideas and potential areas for improvement.

In 2023, Beacon Hospital switched to using reusable biosystems sharps bins. Previously, the 30.2ltr and 7.5ltr sharps containers were shredded and sterilised as healthcare risk waste after use.

Now, each bin can stay in circulation for 600 uses as opposed to being used just once. Since 2023, we have diverted 15,153 containers from ending up in healthcare risk waste.

In 2024, Beacon Hospital introduced a ScrubEx Machine to promote responsible use of hospital scrubs. The system allocates each staff member a set number of scrubs through a credit-based system, ensuring each set is returned before a new set us issued. This system encourages more mindful scrub use and reduces the number of new scrub sets required.

In our Catering Department, our team now use HaPPE Aprons. These aprons decompose in just 5 weeks compared to previous aprons which took 50 years.

Each year Beacon Hospital produces a Gender Pay Gap Report. We continue to review and improve our policies and procedures to enhance fairness and equity for employees at all levels in the organisation.

Read Beacon Hospital’s Gender Pay Gap Reports