CENTRAL COUNCIL / BOROUGH COUNCIL

CLINICAL AND SHARPS COLLECTION REFERRAL

Your details ORGANISATION:

NAME:

ADDRESS:

TELEPHONE: EMAIL:

Patient’s details – collection address NAME OF PATIENT:

ADDRESS:

TELEPHONE:

EMAIL: What collection is required?

SHARPS COLLECTION (YELLOW TOPPED)

DIABETICS SHARPS COLLECTION (YELLOW TOPPED)

INFECTIOUS CLINICAL COLLECTION

(NOTE- NON INFECTIOUS WASTE IS TO BE PLACED IN NORMAL BLACK BIN - SEE OVER)

What frequency is this collection required?

ONE-OFF COLLECTION

REGULAR COLLECTION

DATE REQUIRED – FROM:

TO: The end date must be provided - please contact us again to extend

FOR CYTOTOXIC OR CYTOSTATIC (PURPLE LIDDED) SHARPS OR MEDICATION PLEASE CONTACT YOUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR COUNCIL REGARDING COLLECTION/DISPOSAL. CHARGE FOR THE COLLECTION OF ALL CLINICAL WASTE.

Define the type of waste required to be collected (please see overleaf for details):

Please forward your requests as below:

For Central Bedfordshire residents Address: Waste Services Department, Watling House, High Street North, , LU6 1LF Email: [email protected]

For Bedford Borough residents Address: Waste Services Department, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP Email: [email protected]

Clinical Collections: Information and advice

Description Type of waste Disposal route

Healthcare waste which has been used on, or for a patient Clinical who has been diagnosed Infectious dressings with an infection and is being Infectious swabs (infectious treated for that infection. This Infectious human tissue Clinical waste collection healthcare) includes personal protective Any waste containing blood waste equipment, wound vacuum residue that has been drains and blood-soaked classed as infectious. items which could pose a risk of infection. All needles used for injecting or taking blood Sharps Yellow Lid Dedicated sharps box collections Disposable instrument blades Healthcare waste which is non-hazardous and does not Catheter bags – with pose an ‘infection-risk’, which contents emptied into the has been used on, or for a toilet patient who does not have a Stoma bags – with contents known infection. This ‘Offensive’ emptied into the toilet includes incontinence Residual, black bin or sack waste Incontinence pads products, personal protective Tubing, and ‘peg’ or equipment, wound dressings, stomach feeding equipment urinary catheter and stoma Plasters products. This excludes all Small dressings wound vacuum drains and blood soaked items. Unwanted / Tablets Liquids out-of-date Return to a local pharmacy. Creams medicine Epi-pens Confidential documents and Cardboard boxes papers, and labels from Aerosol cleaning sprays Medicine Recycling bin or bag (Rinsed and patient’s medication to be Plastic nutrition bottles for packaging squashed as usual) disposed of in line with stomach feeding provider’s guidance. Plastic packaging Infectious dressings Infectious swabs Clinical (infectious Infectious human tissue Arrangements made by healthcare healthcare) waste Any waste containing blood worker. Waste residue that has been produced classed as infectious. when a The domestic waste option can only be healthcare used by a healthcare worker with the householder’s permission. Waste items worker treats must be double-bagged, using a a resident in Non-hazardous ‘offensive’ sandwich type bag or white bag from a

their home waste dressing pack before placing in the householder’s domestic waste bag. Larger quantities must only be disposed of via the provider’s tiger stripe bag collection system.