Hospitals: Waste Disposal
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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospital trusts which had contracts with Healthcare Environmental Services Ltd to find alternative clinical waste disposal options.
This question was answered on 15th October 2018
The Department has worked with NHS Improvement and NHS England to put in place a new contract for National Health Service trusts so that clinical waste is removed from sites and disposed of safely.