Carbon reduction plan

Technology can save more than just lives. In the UK, road traffic accounts for around 5% of air pollution and greenhouse gases [1], 16% of which has been identified to NHS infrastructure and transport [2][3].

Let's look at some more numbers:

UK NHS Ambulance trusts answer more than 10 million 999 calls/year (2017) resulting in ~7,300,000 ambulance journeys/year [4]. That's ~20,000 ambulance journeys a day. There are also around 80 air ambulance missions/day [5].

In each year therefore UK ambulances produce ~228,500 tonnes of CO₂ and air ambulances around 13.7 tonnes of CO₂.

It has been shown that GoodSAM Instant-On-Scene reduces the need to dispatch an ambulance in 15% of emergency calls [6]. Similar figures have been demonstrated with air ambulance analysis.

Hence, nationally, video could reduce ambulance dispatch by around 3,000 each day and save the lifting of around 12 helicopter missions.

And this is before we analyse the impact of using Clinic.co and GoodSAM in the outpatient setting, reducing the commuting of people attending outpatients appointments.

And there are similar reductions in the Police and other emergency services.

GoodSAM is highly efficient, both in terms of overheads and energy use. Staff work from home (reducing office and commuting energy requirements), and the vast majority of our meetings (promotional and educational) are done online.

Our annual CO₂ production can be broken down into:

We offset our CO₂ production mostly at source (e.g. when booking flights or paying for electricity). The remainder we offset at the end of each financial year. Our plan, through the GoodSAM Foundation, is to invest in carbon negative reforestation.

Our carbon reduction plan can be found here.