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Welsh NHS reminded of requirement for sustainable travel plans

Rhodri Clark
18 October 2024
Despite the 2008 requirement for Welsh health boards to have sustainable travel plans in place, the Grange Hospital opened in 2020 on a site designed for access by car only. Only one bus route has been extended to serve the hospital, as seen in this photo
Despite the 2008 requirement for Welsh health boards to have sustainable travel plans in place, the Grange Hospital opened in 2020 on a site designed for access by car only. Only one bus route has been extended to serve the hospital, as seen in this photo
 

NHS managers in Wales are being reminded that they are required to publish sustainable travel plans, 16 years after the requirement was introduced.

Jeremy Miles, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, was asked by former transport minister Lee Waters what more the health and care sectors could do to increase their contribution to tackling the climate emergency and ease congestion at hospitals. Miles said this was “an important lens to apply to the sustainability of the health...

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