disposing of meds

Re: disposing of meds

Steph Phillips — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:03:43 GMT

[quote user="Mrs Dot Dot' Tracey Plant RVN MBVNA"]

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For OOD drugs we use got a de-nature kit.. we put all ood drugs in there, then when its full top up with water and shake!it sets like a horrible jelly! then the de-nature kit goes into the parmacutical bin.. I hate this de-nature kit.. there is so much paper work involved this way though.. like listing all the drugs in the pot, exp date, batch number and qty, then a note to summerleaze to say its in the pharm bin, then haz waste consignment note and collection request note! phewf!

So these green bins from dunlops.. is there much involved? can all waste like syringes, vials, empty bottles, and OOD drugs go in there? does it replace the yellow pharmacutical bin??

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Hi... we put our syringes in cinical waste which is collected by our crem company every 2 wks but we put all returned and OOD drugs and glassware (vaccinne vials/ isi bottles/ all drug bottles etc) in our green DOOP bin... we tend to put opened vials... eg vetergesic/ metoclop / valium vials in yellow sharps bins with needles but there is no reason why they can't go in the green bin.

It cost around £90 including disposal but I think it's worth it for safety, legality and ease of use

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Thanks for that will put it forward to the practice manager :) x

Re: disposing of meds

Mrs Dot Dot — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:43:50 GMT

[quote user="*Steph *"]

So these green bins from dunlops.. is there much involved? can all waste like syringes, vials, empty bottles, and OOD drugs go in there? does it replace the yellow pharmacutical bin??

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It cost around £90 including disposal but I think it's worth it for safety, legality and ease of use

Re: disposing of meds

Steph Phillips — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:20:31 GMT

So these green bins from dunlops.. is there much involved? can all waste like syringes, vials, empty bottles, and OOD drugs go in there? does it replace the yellow pharmacutical bin??

Re: disposing of meds

chloehaddow — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:11:52 GMT

I get a bit confused coz out of date controlled drugs have been put in our yellow bin before but i thought they had to be disposed of in front of a police officer etc etc......

Re: disposing of meds

NorthernLass — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:51:11 GMT

Please could you give me the details of these people, so we can use them too: been searching for someone like this for ages!!

Thanks

Re: disposing of meds

Jo Hinde — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:40:05 GMT

For out of date (but unopened) meds, I give them to Dignity Pet Crematorium. They have a partner charity who work in Sri Lanka and are very grateful for any type of med. PLUS, they collect them and this means my practice no longer needs to pay to have the meds disposed of so everyones a winner :o)

Re: disposing of meds

Steph Worsley — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:29:32 GMT

we have the green doop bin for glass/meds the normal yellow sharps bins and also a yellow base purple top bin for our chemo stuff, we also have a purple bag for the chemo waste as well as our yellow bags for clinical waste and black bags for non-clinical stuff! oh not to mention the cardboard recycling and tin recycling

Re: disposing of meds

Rachel Jayne — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:07:17 GMT

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We have a big bin like you Mrs D...but we have a yellow one. All syringes, vials and meds go in it.

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Ditto

Re: disposing of meds

Sal the 1st — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:14:56 GMT

[quote user="Kerry Haigh RVN A1 Cert SAN MBVNA"]

I've just moved practice and I'm very confuddled by it all!! We are now not allowed to place syringes into clinical waste as they can penetrate the plastic bags, so we have a large bin for glass vials and syringes and one for sharps. Upon doing a bit of investigating today the large bin is a sharps bin! I need to phone the crem up tomorrow to clarify everything as the other staff seem very confused as to what to put in where!!

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your not the only one who is confused - its taken me a while to get it straight myself so I am doing everything that is asked

why has everything been made so complicated. If everybody had all the combos of bags and sharps containers in every room there would be no where to work.

its unecessarily complicated and the chances are there are people putting stuff in the wrong place through lack of understanding not just because they cant be bothered with all the different stuff.

Dont like tiger bags that are disposed of in an alternative manner (landfill). instead of incinerating nearly everything we are now producing 2 sorts of waste, some of which will sit around for years and using 2 lots of waste bags - now that really is environmentally sound (not). Or is it just an excuse so some stuff can be disposed of more cheaply?

Re: disposing of meds

Kerry Spain — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:58:48 GMT

Re: disposing of meds

Phrin Vernon RVN — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:43:58 GMT

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we have a yellow lidded, yellow bin, with ' pharmacutical waste incl sharps contaminated with pharmacutical waste' on it. we also have seperate sharps bins. collection and disposal by a small local company

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oops - also says 'excluding carcinogenic'

Re: disposing of meds

Phrin Vernon RVN — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:42:35 GMT

Re: disposing of meds

Sally Howe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:14:31 GMT

We have a blue lidded doop bin. All unwanted or out of date meds go in there (except carcin. waste). Its collected by our registered waste collector.

Re: disposing of meds

Vicky RVN — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:57:31 GMT

We have a big bin like you Mrs D...but we have a yellow one. All syringes, vials and meds go in it.

Re: disposing of meds

Mrs Dot Dot — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:46:50 GMT

We have a DOOP box for disposal of glassware and all meds.... we order thru Dunlops and price includes collection and disposal by a company...they come every 3 months.... it' a green 60litre bin and it lasts about 3 mths... we dispose of all our vacc vials/ isoflo bottles etc and all returned drugs/ OOD drugs etc... We have tried other ways but what I like about this is that there is no faffing about removing liquids from bottles etc, everything can go in there and... it's legal!