The NHS will launch a drive to ensure crutches get reused as part of a crackdown on waste. On Wednesday, ministers will pledge to stop tens of millions of items being thrown away in order to save ...

The boss of the firm at the centre of the NHS clinical waste scandal has hit back against claims of mismanagement. Garry Pettigrew, managing director of Healthcare Environmental Services ...

However, there is a huge opportunity within facilities management to deliver similar benefits by introducing collaborative best practice especially when it comes to healthcare waste and recycling. As ...

A firm has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste from hospitals was allowed to pile up at its sites. Health Minister Stephen Barclay said new arrangements have ...

"We are supporting the government and the NHS to ensure there is no disruption to public services and for alternative plans to be put in place for hospitals affected to dispose of their waste safely." ...

It's emerged that a private company contracted by the NHS has been allowing medical waste to build up at its disposal sites. Healthcare Environment Services (HES) collects around 584 tonnes of ...

The aims of its new clinical waste strategy could save the National Health System (NHS) approximately £11 million annually as well as reduce its carbon emissions from waste by approximately 30%. It is ...

As a result, it has to be taken hundreds of miles to England and Wales by NHS Scotland contractor Tradebe Healthcare to be incinerated alongside the rest of the UK’s hospital waste. Since 2019, ...

An overwhelming number of emails from readers which come to me through the Waste Watch mailbox concern the NHS. The problem of bed blocking caught my attention in particular. It is constantly in ...