NHS staff, patients and the local community all have key roles to play in the NHS Forest project. If you work in healthcare and are interested in increasing the number of trees at your...
The NHS Forest is an exciting new national project coordinated by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare. The project’s central aims are:
- Improving health of staff, patients and communities through use of green space. Largely due to increasing access to green space on or near to NHS land.
- Greening the NHS Estates and planting 1 tree per employee. Amounting to 1.3 million trees within the next 5 years.
- Encouraging greater social cohesion between the NHS Estates and the local community.
- Encourage the NHS to ensure environmental benefits of their estates to include reducing the NHS’ carbon footprint through offsetting from the 1.3 million trees planted.
- Bringing together a range of highly skilled professionals to produce woodland that includes the use of art, food crops and mapping.
The NHS Forest is currently in the pilot phase of the project with up to 10 sites in England being involved. Please see the UK map for further details. We have also had interest from trusts in both Wales and Scotland and are keen to involve Northern Ireland. Do let the NHS Forest coordinator know if you would like to sign up to this innovative project.