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Article: Leeds hospitals going green to keep planet healthy.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2008
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THE newest addition to Leeds hospital facilities is green in more ways than one. For the Bexley Wing - the new [pounds sterling]220m cancer centre at St James's Hospital - is green on the inside and the outside.
In fact it's one of the few Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust buildings which meets the latest Department of Health energy targets.
Many other health facilities across the city were built in an age when carbon emissions were completely unheard of.
But now this issue is top of the agenda following the launch of the NHS's Carbon Reduction Strategy a few days ago.
The UK's health service is the biggest employer in Europe and ...