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Work Should Be Considered
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Alexis Percival recorded on 18/10/23
Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust based in Yorkshire, UK. She started as the first Sustainability Manager for an ambulance service in the country in 2009. Her challenging role involves reducing the carbon footprint of the blue light ambulance service through innovative technologies in the estates, fleet and procurement departments.
Alexis is working on the Net Zero programme implementing awareness schemes, rolling out a carbon champion scheme and installing innovative low carbon technologies across the estate. She has worked on the development of low to zero emission ambulances with innovative low carbon fleet technologies as well as facilitating the roll out of the EV charging infrastructure for the ambulance service. Working with civic and other healthcare partners to ensure additional infrastructure is implemented to support the service.
Alexis is also investigating the challenges of decarbonising the ambulance service through renewable technologies, Net Zero ambulance station design, phasing out of Entonox and looking at alternative models of care. She is working to prepare the ambulance service for climate adaptation assessing the impact of flooding, heat waves and sea inundation on the service.
Alexis set up the GrEAN (Green Environmental Ambulance Network) in 2010, connecting all of the sustainability leads across the ambulance services of the UK to drive forwards the Net Zero agenda.
Alexis has over 25 years of experience in the environmental field as an environmental consultancy working on large national and international projects in the UK as well as in Brazil, Germany, Mozambique and Australia. She’s even managed to fit in a career break spending 3 years driving around the world in an ex-military ambulance, travelling overland to Australia and then travelling around South America.
You can contact Alexis at: alexis.percival@nhs.net
On follow her on the platform formally known as Twitter @alexiskeech
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