Network key achievements
- Active promotion of NHS publications, policy and guidance documents and events and consultations in the field of sustainable travel
- Development and launch of the NHS Cycling Strategy
- Successful network event focusing on raising awareness of the interface between health, travel and sustainability (focusing on policy drivers and tools models, and datasets)
- NHS and Borough Partnership Workshop – allowing local authorities and NHS organisations to investigate opportunities for partnership working in the areas of sustainable and active travel, travel planning and carbon management
- Development of an Acute Trust Sustainable Travel Implementation Model (mapping policy to staff accountability, in an acute setting, alongside recommended actions)
- Commissioning of a database to map sustainable travel initiatives and share good practice
- Collaboration with TfL on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and the Mayor’s Transport Strategy Roundtable on Health
- Network representation on the Carbon Reduction Steering Group for London
- Network representation on the Door to Door Steering Group focusing on PTS
- Provision of entry level training for individuals working in the field of sustainable travel (travel planning)
- Extensive work with A Picture of Health (APOH) and Barnet Enfield and Haringey Transport Working Groups to leverage good practice and learning in health service reconfiguration
- Collaborated with TfL, NHS London and CSL on the use of the Health Service Travel Analysis Tool (HSTAT)
- Development of the existing London NHS Travel Plans Website
- Creation and management of a Sub Regional Groups Fund for practical initiatives in sustainable travel.
- Network participation in events relating to workplace health (Boorman Review)
- Extensive work to map and understand the current travel planning status of NHS organisations across London
