Primary Health Properties sustainability score: 46/100
Better than 68% of Construction / Real Estate
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Primary Health Properties is a UK real estate investment trust that owns primary healthcare properties in the UK and Ireland and lets them to GP practices and other healthcare providers. It reported £259m of rental and related income for 2025, with about 160 employees, and completed its acquisition of Assura in 2025.
Founded 1995Head office London, United KingdomStaff ~162 (2025)Revenue £259M rental and related income (FY2025)Website ↗
Primary Health Properties reports emissions across all three scopes and buys renewable electricity, but its absolute emissions rose in 2025, partly because of the Assura acquisition: Scope 1 and 2 rose 15% and landlord-supplied Scope 3 rose 47%. Its net-zero operations claim relies on carbon offsets, and its science-based targets are committed but not validated.
Primary Health Properties scores 46/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified November 2026.
That places Primary Health Properties joint 262nd of 1,043 companies scored, and 15th of 45 in Construction / Real Estate.
What is Primary Health Properties doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Controversies & Red Flags (8/10, 8/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (2/10, 3/10).
Where Primary Health Properties lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling.
- Its effect on natureAssess its effect on nature and publish a basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteShow active waste reduction, reuse or repair.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste3/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water3/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets4/10Its targets aren't science-based or committed to the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports7/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
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How is Primary Health Properties's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Primary Health Properties's score based on?
10 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
40% of them were published by Primary Health Properties itself; the rest come from independent sources.
PHP prints its Scope 1, Scope 2 and wider Scope 3 (38,365 tCO2e) separately for 2025; the total shown is their sum. Its separately reported landlord-supplied tenant energy (3,215 tCO2e) and upfront embodied carbon (1,830 tCO2e) are described in the answers.
“Business travel (car) 54.8 240 35.9 149”
“Level of Assurance: Reasonable scope 1 & 2, Limited scope 3”
“Assura’s NZC Pathway, including Science Based Targets”
“These installations are expected to generate approximately 650,000 kWh of renewable electricity per year”
“achieve net zero by 2030 for all of PHP’s operational, development and asset management activities”
“Waste N/A, under 0.1% of scope 3”
“29 October 2025: The CMA has cleared the completed acquisition by PHP of Assura.”
“The UK Competition & Markets Authority on Wednesday cleared the acquisition of Assura PLC by Primary Health Properties PLC.”
“PHP (Primary Health Properties) put forward a fourth takeover offer for Assura worth £1.79 billion”
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How does Primary Health Properties compare with other construction / real estate companies?
Where Primary Health Properties sits among construction / real estate peers.
Among the 45 major construction / real estate brands we've scored, Primary Health Properties sits 15th of 45.
Who scores higher in Construction / Real Estate?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Primary Health Properties.
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