NHS Scotland Estate Wide Natural Capital Accounts NHS Scotland Habitat Survey (UKHab Survey)

Greenspaces located within the NHS Scotland estate provide a wide variety of benefits to local communities, staff, and the E-estate through health and wellbeing, cost savings and increased resilience to address the climate crisis. These greenspaces provide amenity benefits, carbon sequestration, flood regulation and air quality regulating benefits, whilst also contributing to local health outcomes and delivering health cost savings. The purpose of the UK Habitat surveys is to understand the quality of greenspace across NHS Scotland, whilst the Natural Capital Accounts provide an overview of the economic, social, and environmental benefits these spaces can bring. This helps to guide future action and enhancement of the natural environment across NHS Scotland.