Sia Partners
Uniting partners to tackle the carbon monoxide data gap
Our project at a glance
- Participating GDNs: Cadent, Northern Gas Networks and SGN
- Strategic priority area: Reducing carbon monoxide (CO) harm
- Support target: 5,000 households over 12 months
- Duration: April 2025 to March 2026
- Investment: £603,456 over 12 months
- Forecast SROI: £2.97
Why we’re working together
Organisations that respond to CO incidents – such as fire and rescue services and the NHS – all capture data differently. This has created a data gap, with the true impact of carbon monoxide currently underreported in public health data.
To tackle this, we’ve joined phase five of the CO Partnership Ecosystem programme. Initially developed by Cadent, the initiative collates CO data from across the gas industry, fire and rescue services and other public bodies.
By making this data available in a simple online platform known as the CO research and analytics platform (CORA), we’ll develop a data-driven understanding of the true prevalence of CO poisoning within UK homes and the corresponding impact on society. This understanding will help inform how CO safety can be improved and how CO harm can be reduced.
Project objectives
- Understanding the true impact of carbon monoxide incidents
- Identifying ways to improve CO safety and reduce CO harm
How we’re working together
Collating carbon monoxide data
We’ve been supporting the project since it was launched by Cadent in 2023, by sharing data relating to our carbon monoxide emergency calls, CO awareness surveys and CO alarm provision.
In joining phase 5 of the programme, we’re able to scale up the initiative by enhancing the online platform and onboarding new stakeholders. We’ll also be working to standard CO reporting across gas networks and fire and rescue services.
We’ll introduce new activities including rolling out IoT ‘smart’ CO alarms through social housing and other partner organisations to provide real time data on CO alarm use and activations. By sharing key insights from the data we capture and analyse on the platform to help inform industry stakeholders on how to improve CO awareness and intervention strategies to minimise the risk and impact of CO.
We’ll also increase engagement with healthcare providers to improve CO awareness among professionals and patients, and set up a new patient referral pathway to enable local authorities to address CO incidents in social housing.
How to get involved
Becoming an CO Partnership Ecosystem (COPE) partner
You can find out more about joining the CO Partnership Ecosystem to share CO data by contacting our team at positive.impact@sgn.co.uk.