Needle attacks
Yet more needle attacks reported in the press, in Bournemouth and in Swindon. Regrettably, just two of many. This, and the more general problems associated with discarded needles and other […]
Yet more needle attacks reported in the press, in Bournemouth and in Swindon. Regrettably, just two of many. This, and the more general problems associated with discarded needles and other […]
These days, it seems there are so many criticisms raised against the NHS that it is to be found perpetually on the wall of shame. And so too due to […]
Two San Diego County men have been charged in a scheme to defraud medical product investors out of more than $4 million to produce an innovative type of syringe. Matthew […]
An interesting report from Kevitt and Hayes of Corporate Health Ireland and the Occupational Health Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, respectively. BACKGROUND: Sharps injuries create a high volume of occupational health […]
Having studiously ignored sharps injury for years, resisting all attempts to make sharps injury a mandatory reporting event under RIDDOR and so prompt investigation of ‘hot spots’ of poor sharps […]
Echoing in some part this report from US, a Dundee IV drug user placed Police officers at risk of sharps injury and infection when he failed to disclose he had an uncapped needle […]
To promote safer injecting and to minimise harm Warwickshire’s Drug and Alcohol Action Team have developed new stickers for sharps boxes. The stickers have been designed to signpost people to […]
As the archive files of the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum will attest, several years before the start of the move toward introduction of engineered safety sharps I took a sceptical […]
An addict’s needle – just what are the risks? Actually, this is an almost impossible question since the risk depended on the type of needle – wide hollow-bore needles are […]
The most recent national estimates suggest that around 216,000 individuals are chronically infected with hepatitis C (HCV) in the UK. A proportion of these, especially those on the farthest periphery of society […]