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Sharps Bin

kambansel

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Location
London
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
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Can anyone tell me where/how to get a sharps bin? I need a small one for work, for spent insulin pen needles and finger prick lancets.

I've asked the local hospital specialist diabetes service (where I go for annual checkups) and they say they cannot help.

Do I have to see my GP then, will they be able to supply this?!
 
Local Council provide them ring your council and ask for the Sharps dispensers phone number they should deliver you one.
 
Hi,
Yes my GP's did prescribe a Sharps bin and now have my second also I am a type 2
 
Thanks PatsyB, will give it a go.
 
You can buy small bins from many chemists but you need to remember when the council takes them to empty you have no choice on the replacement sized bin they give you, so I empty my small one into my big one before collection so I have my small one for traveling and my big home one too
 
satindoll - I'm not gonna buy one...
Daibell - I've just sent my GP an electronic script request so will wait and see what they say...
Cheers to you both
K
 
Just request a sharps bin on prescription from your gp, ask them if you can return it there or if it's the responsibility of your local council. to dispose of it.

I get a 1 litre sharps bin on repeat prescription, when it is full I just return it to the gp surgery , the only thing they ask for is that you sign the prescription label on the sharps bin.
 
GPs prescribe sharps bins, and I guess you can buy them without a prescription from pharmacies.

Disposal varies; in some places the council collects the, in others you have to return them to pharmacies, etc.
 
i will ask my council for one
 
doubt my gp would as he wouldn,t give me a monitor or prescribe strips or needles
 
Isn't it only T1's who need sharps bins I didn't think they would give them to T2's on perscription
 
Hi
go on the web and find Fisher Scientific they do a lot of things for labs, we get ours from there (for work) other places would be janatoriel supplys
they do all different sizes i am sure you will find one that suits
 
AnnieC said:
Isn't it only T1's who need sharps bins I didn't think they would give them to T2's on perscription
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Depends Annie, if they are on insulin they will.
 
AnnieC said:
Isn't it only T1's who need sharps bins I didn't think they would give them to T2's on perscription
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I have sharps bin on prescription, for my lancets. I'm not on insulin.
With the frequency I change my lancets, I'll never fill it though.
 
I'm T2 on insulin and the sharps bins are on my repeat prescription (ie from GP).

For disposal I have to take them to a local Health Centre.


J.
 
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