Hospital waste management to go nationwide
3 April 2012
The NHS is to co-ordinate the procurement of hospital waste management nationally in a bid to keep costs down.
More than 200 trusts have backed a proposal by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (Pasa) for co-ordination of £18 million-worth of clinical waste disposal contracts throughout the country.
Pasa’s waste strategic implementation group will help to establish regional consortia to cut transportation costs by sharing local suppliers.
Currently there is no co-...