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£30 For My Council To Collect My Sharps!

  • Thread starter Thread starter asparagusp
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you need to ring your local health authority, ie nhs local office.
someone gets paid to accept your sharps. whether its a pharmacy in some areas. or in many cases your gp surgery. you should not be paying to dispose of them
 

A little unfair on councils who have to raise money from council tax payers and are trying not to just keep putting council tax up. We already seemed to be burdened with council pensions (should have been outsourced decades ago) and care for the elderly (should be funded at a national level). I like the idea of sending them to TM the PM.
It is only my opinion but we have reached a stage where nothing should be free, there is no given right any more, just nice when it is, like prescriptions. Nye Bevan could never have imagined what would be expected of the NHS.
 
@asparagusp - Are your strips on prescription? If so, then one might have an argument for really challenging your GP, otherwise they may just view it as you wanting to dump your personal rubbish on them.

I dispose of my sharps in the same way as my used strips. I reckon there's more blood on a used strip than on a sharp, and the amount of sharp point is far less than the disposable razor's MrB gets rid of ever few days.
 
Gov guidelines say:
If patients treat themselves in their own home, any waste produced as a result is considered to be their own. Only where a particular risk has been identified (based on medical diagnosis) does such waste need to be treated as hazardous clinical waste. Local authorities have a duty to collect household waste including healthcare waste from domestic properties. Under the controlled waste regulations, the authority may charge for the collection of specific waste streams, including clinical waste
 
Yes I read that too today but nevertheless there are still places that will take them and I plan to find one!
 
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