At Consultant Connect, we are committed to promoting and delivering initiatives that enhance the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the areas in which we operate. This led to Patrick, Hayley, and Brogan from the Account Management Team forming the Social Values Project nearly four years ago. Together, we plan and initiate ways to contribute to social value, support local and small businesses and volunteer within our community to make it a safer, greener space.
As third-party providers to the NHS, we work to ensure we adopt practices that contribute to the NHS’s five social value goals: fighting climate change, promoting well-being and equal opportunities, tackling economic inequality, and supporting COVID-19 recovery.
ISO 14001 and ClimatePartner-certified status
We are both ISO 14001-accredited and have been awarded ClimatePartner-certified status. ISO 14001 is the international standard for implementing an Environmental Management System, and ClimatePartner-certified status recognises that a company has gone through all five steps of a climate action strategy: calculating carbon footprints, setting reduction targets, implementing reductions, financing climate projects, and transparently communicating this. These two accreditations and certifications combined demonstrate that we have externally audited systems and processes in place to manage our transition to net zero.
Carbon footprint
We’ve been measuring our carbon footprint since 2021, with support from the third-party climate measurement company ClimatePartner. We’ve offset our emissions with VER project standard offsets and are carbon neutral.
Our offset project also includes a commitment to remove an additional 10kg of plastic from our oceans for each tonne of carbon offset. Our 2025 report calculated our emissions as 92,657kg CO₂. This is a 4% reduction from the previous year, the equivalent of the entire Consultant Connect team charging their smartphones every day for 51 years.
One of the main impacts of using Consultant Connect services is that it prevents unnecessary hospital trips for patients – approximately 70% of Advice & Guidance queries result in patients avoiding unnecessary referrals/admissions, reducing miles travelled and associated greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the burden on secondary care services. As an organisation, we are focused on delivering remote services that significantly improve our environmental performance, including supporting clients in achieving net zero.
Our ambition to reduce carbon extends beyond the UK, and we aim to support and encourage the use of telehealth wherever we can. We partner with several healthcare professional-led charitable projects globally to support telehealth initiatives. Our non-profit projects include a partnership with the Burma Skincare Initiative, which allows their UK team to provide colleagues in Myanmar with Teledermatology Advice & Guidance. The Myanmar project supports Primary and secondary care services throughout the country, and clinical advice is provided by a team of 15 UK-based NHS dermatologists. In addition to improving patient care, the initiative means many patients no longer need to travel significant distances to access specialist advice, reducing carbon emissions associated with travel beyond the UK. We’ve also recently collaborated with Bridges2Health&Rights, helping doctors in Lebanon to connect with a network of volunteer dermatologists across Europe with expertise in migrant health to receive real-time specialist support.
If you have any questions about our pledge to the environment, please contact us on 01865 951207 or email hello@consultantconnect.org.uk.
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