What penalty for clinical waste errors?
What penalty might be expected for a clinical waste error? In Saudi Arabia, they don’t do things by half, though the circumstances of the case might explain why: Baby, mistaken […]
What penalty might be expected for a clinical waste error? In Saudi Arabia, they don’t do things by half, though the circumstances of the case might explain why: Baby, mistaken […]
A waste management & recycling company require a forward thinking Depot General Manager to cover operations at across a busy facility. The client is a leading name is clinical waste […]
A Chicago federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit brought by a medical waste disposal container company against a competitor it accused of funding and spreading an allegedly […]
A nurse at Northwick Park Hospital who left a patient sitting on a toilet with the door open as well as placed a disposable plastic apron into a general waste […]
The London & Southern Counties Centre is pleased to give notice of an Open Meeting to be held in association with the National Health Service in the lecture theatre at […]
Hospital Waste Manager-London – £35,000 per annum Job type: Permanent, full-time London, South East England Reference: 27811393 Contact Hamilton Mayday We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic, experienced candidate who […]
Changes in the way that Torbay Council collects clinical waste, but now to exclude disposable nappies, have been called ‘disgusting’. From July 21, all residents who have yellow bag collections might be […]
Medical waste company accepted and transported mixed hazardous and biomedical waste OLYMPIA – After inspections found repeated violations of federal waste regulations, the Washington Department of Ecology issued a $72,000 […]
Cleaners are struggling to cope as mounds of potentially hazardous clinical waste is left in wards and around Stevenage’s Lister Hospital. A local paper, The Comet, has published some appalling pictures […]
Patients have been asked to help cut medicines waste, which costs Bristol £3.5 million a year. Patients and healthcare professionals in Bristol are being asked to help stop medicines going […]
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has informed staff of no less than 40 incidents in the last 3 months when clinical waste was being sent to the laundry, […]
Most clinical waste will be placed into an orange sack, with some in yellow or perhaps a Tiger bag. But surely not black? Well, no, except in Arun District where […]
The information given by suppliers, in their catalogues or on-line, can guide users or lead them far up the garden path. So it is with this medical equipment and supplies […]
The scramble to ship effective waste sterilisation or incineration facilities to those West African countries presently affected by Ebola virus infection rolls on. Newest kid on the block is the […]
Nobody would disagree with the sentiment that UK doctors have and ‘ethical duty’ to prevent waste. All that is missing is the reality of lean practice and waste minimisation. “Doctors […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America (PhRMA), Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA), and Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) appeal […]
A doctor accused of dumping confidential information about his patients in his neighbour’s bin in Tunbridge Wells is waiting for his fate to be decided by a jury. The doctor, […]
As far as I know, all but one waste chute have been removed from UK hospitals, first boarded up and then demolished during a later refurbishment or rebuild. They were […]
Successive audits by Blenkharn Environmental of clinical and related wastes from domiciliary producers have identified many problems in performance and information management, as well as the more general support to […]
Yesterday, and for the second time recently, I became aware of a research laboratory using ethidium bromide (EtBr) to stain electrophoresis gels. Nothing unusual in that, except that each lab […]
All credit to those involved in the delivery of healthcare waste training in Lahore. Addressing a two-day training workshop on hospital waste management for health managers, nurses and sanitary inspectors […]
A 16 month old toddler has died after overdosing on iron tablets he thought were ‘Mummy’s sweets’ after his sister climbed onto the bathroom sink to reach them. When children are […]
A green box marked ‘Property of NHS suppliers’, dumped by fly-tippers on some Radcliffe wasteland close to residential properties, sparked concerns of clinical wastes when spotted by residents. The box […]
The West Middlesex Hospital infection control standards are not up to scratch, say CQC inspectors. Inspectors from the health watchdog the Care Quality Commission visited the hospital, in Twickenham Road, […]
We are led to believe that there are opportunities for significant cost saving through improvement in source segregation of healthcare wastes. That is probably true, and of course the environment […]
“More than a dozen cleaners at Cheltenham General Hospital say they have been left severely traumatised after they were stabbed by hypodermic needles in the last 12 months. “At least […]
This sounds exciting. What is being done to reduce the production of clinical wastes? What is being done differently, or not being done at all? There are perhaps many ways to […]
In the US, OSHA confirms that contaminated healthcare linen is not red bag waste. It’s a complex issue that costs US healthcare systems hundreds of millions of dollars each year […]
So, an interesting product development, ‘The Flip’, from Wybone had recently caught my eye. Intended to extend the value of waste sack holders, these flexible and wipe-able magnetic covers sit […]
Clinical Waste Discussion Forum tops 1,000 Some of our visitors may have noticed already, but just a few days ago we topped 1,000 posted since restructuring of the Clinical Waste […]