Call for inquiry as clinical waste costs double

[Northerner]

Taxpayers are being charged more than twice as much for medical waste to be removed from hospitals after the collapse of a scandal-hit firm, figures show.

Contractors are collecting more than £460,000 per week to dispose of the hazardous materials in Scotland following the demise of Healthcare Environmental Services (HES), according to a Freedom of Information request.

HES, which entered liquidation last month, removed waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy in Scotland, as well as a number of NHS trusts in England.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17620652.call-for-inquiry-as-clinical-waste-costs-double/

 

[mikeyB]

The Herald reported this story a couple of years back, I remember reading it. The simple problem is that old hospitals always had incineration on site. New build hospitals don’t. The old West Kent hospital ran the central heating burning clinical waste in the boiler along with the normal fuel. Including the odd bits of people.

The old West Kent hospital also had doctors accommodation, a room where you could have a kip or invite nurses, so you weren’t permanently knackered. New build hospitals don’t have those, either, so doctors now are tired and sex starved, a fairly toxic combination.

Sometimes the old ways are better.

 

[Madeline]

The old West Kent hospital also had doctors accommodation, a room where you could have a kip or invite nurses, so you weren’t permanently knackered. New build hospitals don’t have those, either, so doctors now are tired and sex starved, a fairly toxic combination.

Sometimes the old ways are better.

That did make me giggle, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an on call doctor on nights who didn’t look like he was at least halfway to being a zombie. I can’t imagine any of them being even close to feeling sex starved, but I’ll take your word for it.