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“NHS Scotland climate emergency and sustainability strategy: 2022-2026”

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  1. chdot
    Admin

    Seventeen per cent of journeys in Scotland in 2019 were under 1 km, and more than half (54%) were under 5 km – these shorter trips offer a real opportunity for a significant shift to active travel.

    NHS Scotland will support this shift. By making it easier to walk, wheel, cycle and take public transport to use NHS services, we will improve access for all, particularly those with low incomes, improve health and help tackle the climate emergency. By reducing the need to travel and supporting the shift to active travel and vehicles powered by renewables, we will help improve air quality and cut carbon emissions.

    NHS Scotland seeks to find the right travel solutions for each of the communities we serve, maximising health and wellbeing through both the care we give and the way it is provided. The NHS will support the Scottish Government's ambition to create twenty-minute neighbourhoods – places where things that people need for everyday life are all located within a twenty-minute walking distance.

    We want all our sites, including those non-NHS sites used by primary care services, to be easily accessible for staff, patients and visitors by public or community transport. Public transport is a more physically active way of travelling than private car and has a much lower environmental impact as it is more resource efficient. Where public transport is not a realistic option, we want community-led transport and lift-sharing to be available to help people access healthcare services.

    https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhs-scotland-climate-emergency-sustainability-strategy-2022-2026/

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. SRD
    Moderator

    They could start by proving even minimal bike parking for staff and visitors at the surgery and clinic on ardmillan terrace (Ardmillan house and springwell surgery).

    I was there recently, nothing at all. some railings, but they risk blocking the pavement.

    Met a staff member wheeling her bike in, she was taking it inside somewhere, not a 'bike store' just inside the usual staff door, presumably into a basement or storage room or something.

    I asked her about parking and she said "oh they need it for cars, people can't park here". <facepalm>

    Posted 1 year ago #
  3. neddie
    Member

    Same at the Conan Doyle Medical Practice near Cameron Toll. Zero bike parking. People using the “trolley stop” railings to lock bikes to. When questioned, practice staff just shrug shoulders

    Posted 1 year ago #
  4. Frenchy
    Member

    I was there recently, nothing at all. some railings, but they risk blocking the pavement.

    Used to be here, but they seem to have been a victim of the new flats development.

    Loads of space on the site to add a few racks.

    I FOIed NHS Lothian for the number of bike racks at hospitals a few years ago, was planning to repeat at some point to see if anything's changed. Worth doing for medical centres too?

    Posted 1 year ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    “Worth doing for medical centres too?“

    With this new report I’d say YES!

    Main question is, in context of the realities of the pressures on the NHS, what are the chances of much change as ‘required’ by this report?

    Posted 1 year ago #
  6. Yodhrin
    Member

    At medical centres probably none, a lot are sized or located such that the only way to find room for patient bicycles would be to remove doctors' parking and they won't tolerate that.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  7. acsimpson
    Member

    A lot of medical centres are private businesses too rather than NHS sites. Unless something was added to the operating contract requiring provision there's nothing the NHS could do.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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