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scorrie

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Have just had my usual prescription for sharps bin refused. Surgery (scribbled note) says they are no longer on prescription. Has anybody got any info on this, because can't find anything about it online?
 
Try your local council waste disposal service, you should be able to talk to someone about how to arrange for collection of clinical waste. This shouldn't need a prescription (or any payment).
 
scorrie said:
Have just had my usual prescription for sharps bin refused. Surgery (scribbled note) says they are no longer on prescription. Has anybody got any info on this, because can't find anything about it online?
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That isn't true, sharp bins are available on prescription and I think you need to ask your surgery again, if they insist again that they are not then have a word with your hospital diabetes team (if under their care) and get them to write to your gp surgery.
 
Just collected my on prescription sharps bin today so maybe just a local decision, I'd challenge it personally
, Good luck
 
I can get from GP surgery without prescription. Also, I dont know about your area but Boots Pharmacy have also given me them without a prescription.
 
I too get mine on prescription. Only difference now from when they switched to this is that I take them back to the chemist rather than a waste collection service.
 
Thats got to be a load of Bull!!!! If you haven't got a sharps bin then all your used needles are going to present a health hazzard to some unsuspecting person(s).
I have a feeling that someone who deals with the prescriptions has got their wires crossed somewhere.

My local council charges for the full sharps bins to be collected but fortunately my diabetes clinic has a large yellow bin in reception for us to drop our filled sharps bins in free of charge.

Maybe you could present a bag full of used needles. Lancets and test strips at your surgery and ask them to dispose of them for you. I'm sure they will then tell you that you need a sharps bin lol

Regards

Martin
 
It may depend on your area. In mine you had to register with the clinical waste collection service run by the council. The gp then confirms to them that you're eligible. They give you a new bin and collect your old and you call them to be put on the list when you need it. All free and works fine.
 
rockape37 said:
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Maybe you could present a bag full of used needles. Lancets and test strips at your surgery and ask them to dispose of them for you. I'm sure they will then tell you that you need a sharps bin lol

Regards

Martin
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Before I got a Fast Clix lancing device, I saved all of my old lancets up in a container and took them back to the treatment room staff at my Doctors practise to dump in their Sharps container.

It was never any trouble / problem for them to do this for me.
 
Slightly off topic but the Fastclix is a cracking bit of kit, I use it myself.

Regards

Martin
 
rockape37 said:
Slightly off topic but the Fastclix is a cracking bit of kit, I use it myself.

Regards

Martin
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I prefer it to the new Softclix I have just got with a new meter.

Nice Pike in your avatar mate.

Better get back on topic myself as well.
 
Off topic again, Thank you its a non diabetic 19 pounder , returned to her low glycemic watery world.

I thought the softclix was discontinued now.

We're going to get told off for going off topic.

Regards

Martin
 
Accu Chek might be getting rid of old stock Soft Clix, they are giving it away in the Performa meter and carry case kit. This is with the cash back deal that they seem to have all the time.

I am not sure what the go is here with Sharps containers, I will have ask my friendly bar manager at the bowls club how she gets on with getting one for home and at work.

Good to hear that Esox lucius is diabetes mellitus free.
 
I got a sharps bin on prescription the other day. It might be a local/CCG issue.

When I was in hospital and didn't have one in the ward bedroom, I used an old water bottle as my Sharps Bin that was then given to the ward to dispose of. The day the GP tells me they can't provide me with safe disposal of sharp implements is the day I get a water bottle (thick plastic) and then take it back to the surgery to dispose of in any way they see fit.

The Sharps Bin isn't really for me. I can get pricked from my own needles but I can't catch any blood pathogens I don't already have. It's to protect our waste disposal services from my clinical waste.
 
When I lived in the midlands, I asked for one and was told, use a milk bottle when it's full put it in your gen waste bin... they didn't know I managed a local waste site where all the council trucks tipped.
I advised them that these truck compact waste and would therefore expose my staff to needle stick injuries which would then require urgent hospital treatment and months waiting for tests for disease. They were dumbfounded and I was mortified they told people this!!
Insist they get you one, I did and they suddenly became available?! Go figure!!
Good luck!
 
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