Pharmaceutical firm Adcock Ingram Critical Care has joined forces with a group of local hospitals and waste management businesses to recycle medical waste in the Johannesburg area of South Africa. […]
CHANDIGARH: A task of unclogging drains belched out hundreds of used syringes at Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Saturday, indicating that something was wrong in the disposal […]
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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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Innovators in Kenya have taken a great step forward in the management of waste plastics, using technologies that provide fuel with which to incinerate clinical wastes. Still in its early stages, […]
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 […]
What a novel concept! Fortunately, we have taken steps to shift the focus of attention, and bring forward the implementation of some controls, though there is a long way to go! […]
The NHS is going green, slightly, in small, slow steps, but it IS going green. Many items are reused when it is safe to do so, with expensive disposables side lined […]
Health Technical Memorandum 07-01: Safe management of healthcare waste has been updated (March 2013) and is now available on the Gov.UK website. Interesting perhaps that this ever more bloated document if […]
Love it or loathe it? PVC cannot be eliminated from hospitals, for flooring or for the manufacture of IV bags and tubing where crystal clarity and high flexibility are essential. […]
Trust orders report as bags labelled ‘medical waste’ found on road. So screams the headline of the Londonderry Sentinel. It is a cause for concern, for several reasons. On May […]
Hospitals produce vast quantities of waste – we know that – but some fractions of that waste justify separate collection where possible. One important but commonly overlooked fraction is that […]
The press are today full of comment about hospital hotels, a new – at least new to the UK – initiative to use hotels as a half-way house for patients […]
An independent inquiry has been demanded after radioactive waste was wrongly disposed of at Ninewells Hospital. Two weeks ago, a sharps bin containing radioactive waste was wrongly placed in a yellow […]
There are several, perhaps many, W2E plants popping up. Indeed, with a sometimes indecent hast to capture a slice of the market the number of plants under construction and in planning […]
Regulators and those who follow on their every word continue to be exercised by the question of pharmaceutical residues from clinical wastes. Of course, bulk pharmaceutical wastes from the pharmacy department or […]
The press is getting exercised about a foetus – described boldly as an unborn baby in some of the more lurid headlines – found in a clinical waste bin. The […]
Despite all its woes, the recycling industries have a good record – it could be much better – of recovering material resources for reuse. With correct processing, it matters not […]