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2026/2045

Reference 2026/2045
Description FOI request regarding Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust's Green Plan
Date Requested 20/09/2026
Date Replied 06/10/2026
Category Acute & Community Services Commissioning

This request concerns Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust’s Green Plan delivery and reporting under NHS Standard Contract Service Condition 18 (SC18), covering the financial year 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and subsequent records held at 20 September 2026.

The Trust’s Board paper of 6 May 2026, item 14.3, “Mid-Year Green Plan Update”, includes your “Sustainability Contracting Requirements 2024/2025 Assurance Report”. Its printed page 1 identifies the reporting year as 2024/25, and page 5 rates Board submission/publication “Partial”. Please distinguish that assessment from the records requested below.

  1. Applicable requirements: The relevant contract or reporting-instruction extracts identifying the Co-ordinating Commissioner, applicable SC18 version, reporting period and deadline for the Trust’s 2025/26 annual Green Plan summary, including any agreed extension.
  2. Submission received: The final 2025/26 annual Green Plan progress summary and quantitative annexes received from the Trust, together with its receipt date and acknowledgement. If only a draft or interim submission was held, please provide the latest version received and its receipt date.
  3. Assessment and current position: The completed assessment or checklist and outcome communicated to the Trust for 2025/26, together with any later SC18 assessment held at the cut-off date. Please include the recorded assessment dates, periods covered, evidence references and any outstanding requirements.
  4. Follow-up: The latest action-plan or decision extracts recording whether outstanding Green Plan delivery, Board reporting or publication requirements were completed, including any recorded closure dates and supporting evidence references. If the 2024/25 assessment was relied upon to establish compliance for a later period, please provide the recorded basis for doing so.

As of 20th September 2026, NHS Greater Manchester has not yet received a submission or conducted an assessment against NHS Standard Contract Service Condition 18 (SC18) for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust for the reporting period of 2025/26.

A copy of the reporting instruction extract relevant to SC18 is below:

  Reporting Period

 

 Format of Report Timing and Method for delivery of Report Service category
Report on progress against Green Plan in accordance with SC18.2 and SC18.3 (NHS Trust/FT only) – aligned with NHS FT Annual Reporting Manual 2025/26.

NHS Standard Contract 25/26

NHS England » NHS foundation trust annual reporting manual 2025/26

 Annually Provision of an annual summary of progress of delivery of the Green Plan including the following as a minimum:

·         actions taken and planned

·         quantitative progress data

·         evidence that a summary has been published in the Trust’s annual report

·         Clear detailed plans in relation to; air pollution (fleet vehicles, promotion of and increased use of sustainable travel and phasing out of fossil fuel for primary heating), climate change (how organisation will take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce carbon impacts of anaesthesia, nitrous oxide and inhalers and adapt premises and services to reduce risks from climate change)

·         TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures)

Returns will be reviewed, and a summary report will be shared with providers. Escalations requiring contract intervention will be taken to the relevant provider contract review meetings.

 Email report/supporting evidence to nhsgm.sustainability@nhs.net before the end of Q3 2026/27 (31/12/26).

 

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