Clinical Waste Collection Service
The Council provides a clinical waste collection and disposal
service for residents who live in their own home and have medical
conditions which generate waste that must be disposed of under
controlled conditions.
The service is provided to enable individual residents to
continue living in their own homes.
We do not provide a service for residents of private residential
homes, healthcare professionals (pharmacists, GPs, dentists,
clinics and such like.), private residential homes, tattooists or
any other commercial organisation. Neither do we provide any
service to collect clinical waste or sharps items (needles,
syringes and so on) which have been discarded on private land or
the public highway.
Strict confidentiality is maintained on the details of
individuals receiving this service. Access to the service is
through referral by a GP, Community Nurse or hospital clinic
only.
Please note, the terms for receiving our service are as
follows:
- we can only accept people who are physically unable, through
age, disability or infirmity, to return their used sharps boxes to
their GP, clinic or the source through which they were
prescribed
- we cannot accept incontinence items (bed-pads, nappies, diapers
and such like) or used swabs and dressings for disposal as clinical
waste, unless the patient has an infectious disease
- we do not provide service users with sharps containers
(containers must be provided by the healthcare person or
organisation which supplies the service user’s medicines or
syringes)
- all service users will need to undergo an annual registration
process to continue to receive our service