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Disposal bin

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thelis

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I've just received my first lot of strips, lancets and disposal bin from my nurse. She said that when you have 3 bins full someone comes to collect them. Is this usually someone from the surgery? Also do I put the used strips in the bin as well as the lancets. I have a Freestyle Freedom Lite meter.
 
hi not sure i have been told to ring my council and someone will come and collect .
 
A lot depends on where you live as to what happens with the bins. Some people take them to their doctor's surgery, some to the pharmacist, but in my case I call a number at the city council and they come and collect it, and leave me a new one. As it is a 5 litre bin I only need to call them once a year or so! Ask your nurse what the procedure is, I would imagine there is a number you can call when the bins need replacing (it might even be on the bin itself).

I just throw my used strips out with the normal household rubbish.

Here's a poem about someone trying to return a sharps bin to their surgery:

http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.com/2009/04/rude-receptionists.html

:D
 
I'm amazed you have one just for lancets, though of course they are 'contaminated' LOL sharps - many people can't get one for needles let alone lancets.

In fact my latest AccuChek Multiclik gadget has 6 lancets concealed in a cassette doings, so I haven't seen the pointy bits of it at all. I assume you could just sling them in the bin? but dunno really.

Collection and disposal methods vary considerably from place to place - because I live just over the border from one PCT to another, but my doctors surgery is in the PCT where I don't live, I take mine back to the inhouse pharmacy but they can't give me a new one without me getting a prescription for it first, in practice I get the new one first before it's full, then get some more in the old one until it's crammed up to the line, then take it back when I remember. Or I could ring up the council where I reside and they would come and get it.

I should wait till you've filled 2 and some and then enquire. If you get through as many 'freehand' lancets as I always have, I'd be dead before even one was full. :D
 
Multiclix lancets make handy noses, ears and feet for Diabotics...

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:D


I put my lancets in a jam jar and when I see DSN again, I will empty it in their sharps bin.
 
Sounds like she means the council. I take my bin to our district nurses station for a swap. It's only a 1ltr one, I use side cutters to cut of the tip of the needle so it doesn't fill up very fast, lancets go in the bin, but test strips go in the household waste.

Instructions here: http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2421.aspx
 
We have 3 lined up in the garage ready to take to the surgery - don't know if I dare now.......
 
I have been on our council website and they won't collect them. They say contact your surgery. We have asked in chemists in town too and they won't have them. Of course I went to the surgery a couple of weeks ago - but forgot to take them!
 
Northerner said:
A lot depends on where you live as to what happens with the bins. Some people take them to their doctor's surgery, some to the pharmacist, but in my case I call a number at the city council and they come and collect it, and leave me a new one. As it is a 5 litre bin I only need to call them once a year or so! Ask your nurse what the procedure is, I would imagine there is a number you can call when the bins need replacing (it might even be on the bin itself).

I just throw my used strips out with the normal household rubbish.

Here's a poem about someone trying to return a sharps bin to their surgery:

http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.com/2009/04/rude-receptionists.html

:D
Click to expand...

Alan, do you mind if I put this on my facebook page, as I used to be a dr's receptionist I'd love for my old colleagues to read this, they'd cry laughing!!!!
 
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