BD Safe-Clip needle clipping / chopping device

[Feebee64]

I have used the Safe-Clip devices of years. Recently though, my chemist is unable to provide them. Has anyone else experienced a problem and is there an alternative available?

 

[helli]

Welcome to the forum @Feebee64
I thought there had been previous threads about the needle clipper but, unfortunately, I cannot find them. I don't think they are very popular nowadays.
I was prescribed the clipper about 20 years ago but that was before I had a sharps bin. I stopped using the clipper because it left a very short point which I scratched myself on a few times - a clipped needle was no safer than an unclipped one. I found it better to put the cap back on the needle and throw it away in the yellow bin.

 

[Sally71]

I agree with @helli - we were given one when my daughter was first diagnosed, over 12 years ago now. But it doesn’t completely remove the needle so seems like a waste of time, I think we only used it a couple of times!

 

[trophywench]

I spose it depends where you happen to have lived. I lived in Worcestershire (Kidderminster) for 30years after being diagnosed and only moved to Warwickshire (well, Coventry, then moved down the road to Bedworth but still with the same GP surgery, in Cov) - different Health Authority and hospital for Bedworth and as I was already established with the Cov hospital systems we were asked if we wanted to change 'or what' - and we didn't really.

Anyway - nobody has ever suggested to me that I should have a needle clipper and I've never seen one 'in the flesh'. There again it wasn't until this century I was offered a sharps bin!