Healthcare Environmental Services ceased trading after a build-up of clinical waste at its depots prompted the NHS to cancel contracts. Directors of the Scots firm which sparked a UK-wide clinical […]
Thirty tons of clinical waste from Scottish hospitals was reported missing after the collapse of Lanarkshire-based disposal contractor HES last year and the Scottish Government has been urged to investigate […]
It is claimed that human remains have been found in 100 containers of exported recycling sent from UK to Sri Lanka. The British government – the Environment Agency – has […]
It is alleged that hundreds of tons of healthcare wastes, including as the press and politicians will insist a veritable mountain of body parts, have been stockpiled since collapse of […]
The ongoing ‘HIV blood’ scandal inquiry continues and it was noticeable that one witness has spoken of the distress caused to her and her late husband when the clinical waste […]
As we have noted before on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum, healthcare regulators the CQC and its Scottish equivalent frequently record issues with clinical and sharps waste handling, transport, and […]
Established in 2013, City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE) was initially set up to provide Pharmacy Services to City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust, but more recently we have created […]
A huge pile of commercial rubbish, thought to include hospital waste, has been fly-tipped in a country lane in Hampshire. The mound of mechanically-processed refuse appeared on a path off Greywell […]
The company contracted to solve Scotland’s clinical waste crisis is facing opposition to its plans for a new treatment plant. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman admitted last week that toxic NHS material, […]
In a further row over clinical waste management in Scotland, The Scottish Herald reports in gory detail about a row over photos of bins labelled anatomical waste outside Edinburgh’s Western General […]
Hazardous clinical waste is being transported in the same hospital trolleys as sterile medical equipment — sparking fears of lethal cross-contamination. A whistleblower raised serious safety concerns after claiming roll […]
Clinical waste is piling up outside hospitals, Health Service Journal reveals, amid fallout from the crisis which exploded in the sector last year. An NHS England document, leaked to HSJ, revealed […]
Interesting news from the US company Elastec, who offer a number of different portable incinerators* intended for modest volumes of clinical wastes and pharma waste respectively. The company produce the […]
The government is reminding companies which export waste from the UK to review their contingency plans in case of disruption at ports, should the UK leave the European Union without […]
Incinerating clinical waste from health boards across Scotland is bringing around £8,000 a week into Shetland Islands Council’s (SIC) coffers. The SIC started taking in low grade NHS waste such […]
Rise in needle injuries following collapse of hospital waste disposal firm. Union bosses have blamed the spate on untrained porters being made to work with hazardous materials. A Scottish health board […]
It started out as just a normal day at the tip for Mike Lewis of Carmarthen. The air was changing as the season altered from summer to autumn. The temperature […]
Yes, it’s true. A woman who is soon to have her leg amputated wants to use her own skin to make a handbag. Joan, who is 55 and from Manchester, […]
After HES Ltd, it seems that the Press are working hard to keep everyone on their toes. Finding wastes stored inappropriately at this Scottish hospital is causing red faces and, […]
NHS bosses warned that nearly 30 tonnes of “high risk” clinical waste may have gone missing. Emails reveal that Shotts-based Healthcare Environmental Services Ltd, which is at the centre of a […]
Well, it’s spreading among Local Authorities who are presumably cash poor and struggling to balance their books. After news of ‘threats’ to charge for domiciliary clinical waste collections when local […]
Health chiefs are being urged to plough more resources into Renfrewshire’s main hospital after inspectors uncovered a string of hygiene failures. Concerns have been raised that extra investment is needed to […]
Veolia has been granted an environmental permit for its energy from waste plant at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, as it awaits a final decision on planning approval for the facility. The […]
A former Scottish health secretary has used parliamentary privilege to claim that a Westminster civil servant worked to “deliberately and systematically destroy” a clinical waste company that laid off 400 […]
Packaging solutions company Mauser Packaging has launched a medical waste container made from 100% recycled plastics generated from post-consumer packaging waste. The product, WIVA Infinity Container, was recognised by receiving […]
There are, no doubt, lots of different opinions regarding the current HES Ltd “scandal”. Before making your own decisions about this, read the documents presented by HES Ltd at https://www.healthcareenv.com/the-truth. […]
Surprised to see the British Bins site advertising a 70 ltr open frame/free-standing clinical waste pedal bin. Isn’t it long over that these were replaced with something better? All metal lids […]
Employees of Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) were left in tears after a text message warned them their wages would not hit their banks on Friday. Employees of Healthcare Environmental Services […]
Human remains and other medical waste that require professional storage and treatment are building up at dozens of NHS trusts in England after a scandal-hit contractor stopped collections. Ministers issued […]
SEVERAL NHS trusts in the North-East have had their clinical waste collections stopped after a scandal-hit contractor ran into difficulties. Hospitals run by ten NHS trusts in the region have been […]