Driving down emissions

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust (NUH) has joined forces with the Leasedrive Group to reduce emissions from employees’ cars.

The company will deliver the trust’s green car salary sacrifice scheme, which only allows staff to choose vehicles with low emissions. The contract is an extension to a three-year deal which recently came to an end.

Alison Needham, pay services manager for NUH, said: “We originally implemented the car salary sacrifice scheme to deliver cost savings to the trust, as well as offering an attractive benefit to employees. The people who have received their vehicles think the scheme is great.”

Under the initiative, employees sacrifice some of their salary in exchange for a new vehicle which is fully serviced and maintained. The employee saves tax and national insurance on the money sacrificed, making it a cost-effective way of leasing a car. The trust itself can also save as much as £800 per vehicle per year through reductions in national insurance and pension contributions.

As well as encouraging employees to choose cars that have a lower impact on the environment, the trust also operates a medilink bus service that allows employees to park offsite and travel to both Nottingham City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre by bus.