The NHSPS estate is made up from a range of property types from large urban Community Hospitals down to small rural surgeries and where NHSPS is directly responsible for the provision of electricity and gas to about 1,600 of these properties. The utilities consumed on the estate are currently metered by over 3,000 electricity and gas meters, 1,500 water meters and very few, if any, heat meters. There is typically a single electricity, gas and water meter for a property or a site, which may include more than one separate building or utilised space. There are some instances of larger sites with more than one fiscal meter, but these will rarely provide fiscal metering of each build