Who screens their outgoing and incoming healthcare wastes for radioactive contamination? Now and again, some alarm activations will arise, not perhaps from inappropriate disposal of some radioactive source or lab […]
Patients’ medical details have been found dumped in a bin near Tunbridge Wells. The confidential information of patients, along with medical waste was found scattered across a road and in […]
A Tampa recycler is accusing a waste disposal company of mislabeling millions of pounds of medical waste – including bloody bandages and fluid bags – leading it to be incorrectly […]
Sharps “lost” in hospital laundry had been a widespread and common problem, though these days we hear so little about it. Has it really got any better? Sharps dropped into […]
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 […]
Guidance designed to protect doctors’ safety and patients’ rights following needlestick injuries has been published by the BMA. It provides information on the legal and ethical requirements faced by doctors […]
The disposal of used needles in recycling bins is not just a health risk but ‘undermines’ recycling efforts, Slough Borough Council (SBC) has said. SBC is calling on residents not […]
A collection scheme to recycle clean PVC medical waste is being implemented at seven different NHS hospitals across Britain. RecoMed, a take-back project run by the British Plastics Foundation (BPF) […]
Two human legs that were removed during a surgery have been found in a waste dump near Newcastle in New South Wales, police have confirmed. A man working at a […]
“Needles in recycling waste force Tewkesbury Borough Council to send 21 tonnes of rubbish to landfill. “Hypodermic needles have contaminated 21 tonnes of recycling in Tewkesbury, forcing the borough council […]
Plymouth Community Healthcare is to hire two new nurses thanks to £60,000 waste management savings. The healthcare provider has been able to fund two new nurses thanks to an improved […]
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 […]
South Tyneside council is to scrap domiciliary clinical waste collections. Announced on their website, the move is no doubt predicated on concerns regarding cost. As an alternative, households producing sharps wastes […]
Waste management giant SRCL has placed on its web pages several useful poster resources, to highlight various Do’s and Don’ts in waste disposal, as well as practical guides to waste […]
East Kent Hospitals Trust admits health and safety failure as clinical waste is mixed up with linen at William Harvey in Ashford. In Clinical waste goes to hospital laundry, the Clinical […]
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, […]
A Limerick hospital porter has received €15,000 compensation after a needlestick injury having been pricked by a syringe as he was removing a bag of rubbish Leo Fitzgerald, 51, sued the Health Service […]
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 […]
EU rules for waste medicines should be harmonised and strengthened, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) has claimed, after a survey of six member states revealed a wide discrepancy in collection […]
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 […]
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, […]
A couple of years ago, an increasing number of community nurses got a bee in their collective bonnet about the carriage of clinical wastes in their NHS-funded cars. The issue […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Alongside the revelation of radioactive wastes of hospital origin having been deposited in N Ireland landfill, and the many incidents and irregularities in clinical waste disposal South of the border, […]
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 […]
Green initiatives in hospital practice can make valuable contributions, to the environment and to environmental protection, and to cost containment. But it can also increase costs and we, as a […]
The world is rightly concerned about the presence of prescription drugs in natural water sources. Everywhere you look, in wastewater discharges from hospitals, in lakes and rivers, and in drinking water, […]
There have been mutterings recently from the Scottish Parliament of sanctions to be held against healthcare professionals – doctors were singled out but this presumably embraces all – who fail on […]