Find out about University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP), our values and sustainability goals.
Our Vision
Our Vision is to provide excellent care, with compassion, wrapped around people’s individual needs.
Together with our partners, we will deliver nationally leading integrated health and care, unlocking better outcomes and reducing inequalities, whilst developing UHP as a regional specialist centre, to improve lives across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall.
UHP has a unique position as one of few trusts in the country to fulfil four distinct roles in the peninsula health and care system – spanning community and social care, mental health, acute and through to specialist and tertiary services.
Who We Care For
We are responsible for providing care across the widest of spectrums: from within people’s homes and working with our voluntary sector partners in local communities, to offering the most specialist hospital care available in our regional centre.
The southwest peninsula geography gives our Trust a secondary care catchment population of 475,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy.
We are UHP
Watch our video to find out more about the people at University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP).
A Regional Specialist Teaching Trust
We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Plymouth and working with Plymouth Marjon University. As host to the Joint Hospital Group South West (JHG(SW)) in a city with a strong military tradition, we have a tri-service staff of nearly 200 military doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are fully integrated within our facilities.
UHP People Plan
The purpose of our People Plan is to set out how we will value, support and develop our staff to create a thriving and sustainable workforce. Whilst it echoes many of the themes in the National People Plan, its emphasis is on the needs of our local context, based on what our people say is important to them. It is one of our enabling strategies to support the delivery of the Trust’s overall strategy.
Sustainability at UHP
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) launched its refreshed Green Plan, ‘For a Greener Future’ in 2023, alongside the declaration of a Climate Emergency. The plan outlines the key work streams that will improve sustainability performance across the Trust over the next five years, and the collaborative initiatives with partner organisations, such as Plymouth City Council, to contribute to carbon reduction targets by 2030.
Our Trust goal is to lead in sustainable health and care, in partnership with our community and planet
Our Trust objectives are:
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Reduce the Trust’s NHS Carbon Footprint by 80% by 2032, and achieve net zero by 2040
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Reduce the Trust’s NHS Carbon Footprint Plus (including our wider supply chain) by 80% by 2039, and achieve net zero by 2045
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Achieve 10% net biodiversity gain by 2030, across the UHP estate
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Adopt the Clean Air Hospital Framework to achieve an 'Excellent' score of 70% by 2028
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Reduce the risk rating of the climate change risk assessment by 20% by 2025
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Adopt a sustainable model of care for each clinical pathway by 2030
