In 2019, acute care services were the largest clinical source of carbon dioxide emissions by the NHS in England, releasing around ** thousand kilotons of CO2 equivalent. Following acute care, the largest amount of CO2 emissions were attributed to primary care and non-clinical support activities by the NHS.
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