Blaze at Bellshill medical waste plant
Staff have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plant which processes medical waste in North Lanarkshire. Firefighters were called to the site run by Tradebe Healthcare on […]
Staff have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plant which processes medical waste in North Lanarkshire. Firefighters were called to the site run by Tradebe Healthcare on […]
Former staff at Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) – whose headquarters were near Shotts in Lanarkshire –launched legal action after the firm failed to consult them before making them redundant. Former […]
Screaming inevitably the piles of legs, arms and whatever, the newspapers report two burglars arrested after breaking into the HES site at Longbenton, North Tyneside. Adding to the shock horror […]
Steps have been taken at a warehouse unlawfully filled with more than 400 tonnes of NHS clinical waste after the Environment Agency raised concerns over a potential “significant risk to […]
Garry Pettigrew, boss of the firm HES Ltd at the centre of a clinical waste scandal, and his wife Alison have been charged with breaching pensions laws. They are alleged to […]
Clinical hospital waste –including body parts – has been left piled up in bags at a site for nearly a year. A woman who lives nearby claims her life has been […]
Healthcare Environmental Services in Longbenton, North Tyneside, built up stockpiles of body parts and other medical waste and was ordered to dispose of the stored material. It went into liquidation […]
ENDS reports a new entrant to the clinical waste disposal market has claimed there is a lack of incineration capacity, a concern that was first highlighted last year when a specialist […]
Cash-strapped NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) is spending ever-increasing amounts of money on disposing of hazardous clinical waste, while a disposal firm awaits planning permission for a new incineration […]
Regulated disposal of tissue waste has always been problematic. Simply putting them, suitably bagged or binned as appropriate into a licensed clinical waste incinerator is straightforward though often rather disruptive […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sevearl sources are reporting that clinical wastes from Scottish hospitals are being shipped to Wales for treatment. The BBC reports that under a new contract, “yellow bag” waste and sharps […]
Clinical waste firm Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has gone into liquidation four months after all of its staff were made redundant. Accountants BDO have been appointed to the Lanarkshire-based company […]
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 […]
More than 180 workers made redundant from clinical waste firm Healthcare Environmental Services have started legal action to recover wages. Three months after the Shotts-based company let all its staff […]
A furious pensioner has told how her home is now plagued by rats and putrid pongs from an abandoned medical waste depot. The lady revealed vermin have overrun her garden since […]
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 […]
In a display of remarkable journalistic hyperbole, today’s Daily Mail screams “Shocking new pictures lay bare scale of NHS body parts scandal: Inside waste disposal firm facing criminal probe after […]
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 […]
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. […]
An ‘outcry’ has erupted over the disposal of hazardous waste as untrained NHS staff are ordered to deal with ‘clinical rubbish’ So screams the latest Daily Record headline. “Hundreds of staff […]
Looking online for updated information about Healthcare Environmental I was, to say the very least, surprised to see a number of waste management companies who are trying hard to pick up […]
Hundreds of workers at a troubled clinical waste firm in North Lanarkshire have been made redundant. Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) told staff they were being made redundant with “immediate effect”. In […]
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 […]
More than 20 NHS trusts must store clinical waste, including human remains, at their premises for up to a fortnight after their scandal-hit contractor stopped collecting waste last week, prompting […]
Almost 20 NHS trusts are paying three times as much for clinical waste services after the trusts cancelled their previous contracts with the waste disposal company at the centre of […]
Materials Recycling World report that, as we know, the waste sector has hit the mainstream media headlines again – this time the specialist world of clinical waste services. A serious […]