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Healthcare waste streaming workstations
COVID 19 - Update
Our front line staff need as much help and support as they possibly can get!
These harrowing images show the true extent of the pressure that our healthcare systems and staff are under.
The current Covid-19 pandemic is putting a huge strain on healthcare workers and structure globally. The numbers of very ill patients needing treatment means that less- well equipped areas are being drawn in to care for these patients. Make shift ITU rooms, utilising recovery areas, operating theatres and newly developed field hospitals are all short of a "care-station" - a mobile working surface, with a "built in" disposal facility to treat the patient from.
Currently, blood samples, invasive lines and drips, airway management and respiratory support devices, toileting and basic hygiene, noting and documentation are now being performed from either "over the bed" tables, originally designed for patient eating and drinking, or from simple wheel along table stands.
Highly contagious waste is then either disposed of in a foot of the bed bin or moved away (as is the case for sharps and drug waste) to remote disposal bins. This in itself increases the chance of cross contamination and potential injury.
Using equipment and systems that are not fit for purpose will increase the hazards, stress, fatigue and frustrations for the staff treating these seriously ill patients. When people are placed under undue pressure from poor work systems, - these factors can lead to sub-optimal performance. When this occurs, such factors only serve to reduce levels of care and may also endanger the individuals, potentially exacerbate the spread of Covid-19 to healthcare workers and consequently, their family members.
As of today, 21st May 2020, 321 NHS and social care staff have lost their lives due to coronavirus.
OUR WORKSTATIONS WILL ALLOW STAFF TO WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY AND SAFELY DURING THESE DIFFICULT TIMES.
Please note:
Covid 19 - Update, is an addition to our current website. Our normal site is available below.
Many thanks,
The Meditret team.
Healthcare waste streaming workstations
Cut your waste costs
The NHS produces approximately 600 000 tonnes of waste per year. Approximately 70% of this is domestic and 30% is classed as clinical waste.
Currently healthcare waste of all classification is disposed of in specific bins and receptacles which are placed at the periphery of the room.
In a time pressured environment, when caring for patients, it is often not efficient or feasible to leave the bedside and take waste to multiple remote receptacles. Because of this it usually ends up in the nearest or easiest.
3 separate hospitals = same problem
As a consequence, waste does not always get classified as efficiently as it could - domestic waste ends up in clinical receptacles with increasing disposal costs. A 30% reduction in the contents of clinical waste bags could represent up to £30 million savings per year.
The images below are commonplace in the healthcare setting, Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Units, A&Es etc, all have bins like these. Apart from the financial burden, this practice also places more pressure on the waste handlers and ultimately on the environment!
Making your work environment safer
Crowded and busy rooms also compound this issue. With multi-disciplinary staff members in the room it can be difficult and potentially dangerous to navigate hazardous waste to the receptacles. A statistic from the NHS Employers Organisation states that in 2015, there were 40,000 needlestick injuries reported - 27% of these occurred after the procedure - but before disposal.
Risk assessment of this task recommends that hazardous materials such as sharps, needles and infected body fluids be disposed of as near to it's generation as possible.
Cut your waste costs
Our fully interchangeable, client configured workstations allow you to dispose of your healthcare waste at the point of generation in a safe and logical manner. Set each workstation up to suit your workplace needs using our interchangeable bracketing system.
No more moving waste and sharps across the room to fixed disposal points.
It's time to get rid of these
And move into the new era
Simply take the workstation to your patient and clear the waste as you produce it
- quickly
- efficiently
- safely
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BENEFITS
Clinician designed & built in the UK.
ENHANCED
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Cost savings - up to 30% against worst practice with correct waste streaming at source
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Enhanced safety - sharps, offensive or infectious waste removed at the point of care
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Ergonomic design to reduce poor user posture - with higher working surfaces, forward facing disposal apertures and side loading and unloading bin and sharps container facility
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Efficiency of clinical practice and work space utilisation
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Work space hygiene and cleanliness
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Longevity - tough, robust and durable 316 stainless steel
INDIVIDUALISED
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Client - configured for particular needs
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Re-configurable, immediately, with -
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Interchangeable brackets and shelves for redeployment
All waste streaming stations are ergonomically designed - to prevent back strain. Taller than conventional work surfaces the workstation offers a new concept in helping prevent repetitive postural back and neck injury.
90 - 100 cm worktop height
helps maintain right angle at the elbow thus preventing forward curvature of the spine during procedure.
Side loading and unloading
bag and bin inserts - Made for easy unloading and loading. No more lifting heavy sacks
of rubbish over the top of a fixed bin.
Soft closing lids - Ensure sharps containers and bins can be covered when not in use.
WE BELIEVE THAT OUR WORKSTATIONS WILL MAKE THE IDEAL ADDITION TO YOUR ORGANISATION!
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