Suture Material

Re: Suture Material

Emma Purnell — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:16:50 GMT

Also, PDSA will not use anything out of date, even being a charity - hope you find it a good home!

Re: Suture Material

Rhiannon Hutton — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:50:49 GMT

Dogstar Foundation are always looking for donated OOD materials if it still needs a home.

http://www.dogstarfoundation.com/

Re: Suture Material

Sal the 1st — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:39:46 GMT

[quote user="Katie Mansfield"]

Failing that your local PDSA / RSPCA / Blue Cross / Animal Health Trust / misc charity vet clinic would bite your hand off for it!!!!!!!

K x

[/quote]

I worked for the Blue Cross for 10+ years and I can tell you a lot of the donated sutures, dressings etc were not used if they were out of date. I found this a terrible waste and rather than dump them I used to pass them on to other charities. (I got permission for this) I once received upwards of 50 clin waste bags full of stuff ie a van full (all very useable) and the only things that made it into use were swabs and drapes which were cut to size packed and resterilised. I would say less than a 10th of what was donated was actually used on site

Re: Suture Material

Paulette — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:37:56 GMT

Thank you Aimee and Louise for drawing my attention to this! Hello :) Yes I am volunteering in India next year :D I'll PM you now

Thanks :) P

Re: Suture Material

Katie Mansfield — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:17:23 GMT

Failing that your local PDSA / RSPCA / Blue Cross / Animal Health Trust / misc charity vet clinic would bite your hand off for it!!!!!!!

K x

Re: Suture Material

Aimee Barber — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:24:38 GMT

http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/forums/p/18333/133318.aspx#133318

here's a link to a recent post about this