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New heat recovery units on the tower roof will result in a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions at the trust. Once fully operational, the units will reduce the building’s CO2 emissions by around 1,300 tonnes per year from 6,500. A 1000 tonne crane will be erected in South car park over the Easter weekend to deliver engineering equipment for the units to the Pond Street roof. “The new engineering plant forms a key part of the trust’s five year carbon reduction strategy,” said Nick Vincent, business continuity manager at the trust. Meanwhile, work on the new imaging centre at the trust is getting underway. The plans include a new reception, new waiting area and state of the art machinery - all leading to a better patient environment. 1) For further information contact: Fiona Cordy, communications officer, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, 020 7317 7590, fiona.cordy@royalfree.nhs.uk 2) The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust is renowned for its specialist services including liver, kidney and bone marrow transplantation, renal, AIDS/HIV, infectious diseases, plastic surgery, immunology, paediatric gastroenterology, ENT surgery and audiological medicine, amyloidosis and scleroderma. We run a major accident and emergency service, all branches of surgery and medicine, a renal service serving the whole of north London, paediatrics, maternity services, care of elderly people, an adolescent psychiatric service and one of two high security infectious diseases units in the country. We are a leading haematology centre and a major neuroscience base with a network extending throughout north London and into the Home Counties. We have associated internationally recognised research and training programmes. For more information visit www.royalfree.nhs.uk We are a member of the academic health science partnership UCL Partners. The Royal Free was the only teaching hospital in London to be rated excellent for services and excellent for use of resources in the 2008 Healthcare Commission annual health check.
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