Saving money and man hours
Healthcare waste and its effective management may seem a tedious process. It may even be perceived as a relatively low priority by your organisation. Notwithstanding this, it remains an essential part of running a healthcare business effectively. Get it wrong, and it could become extremely costly. It could even affect your ability to operate.
At Anenta, we recognise the challenges facing producers of healthcare waste, which is why we’ve developed our industry leading waste management platform, alongside solutions and support to take the strain.
Adopting a holistic approach, we assist you with the procurement process, we help you specify your contracts more accurately, and we deliver greater control over your existing contracts. We also work with you to reduce waste volumes and associated costs, and we put measures in place to help your organisation maintain compliance.
We do this in a number of ways, ranging from overseeing your waste collection and disposal services, to helping you meet your responsibilities as a waste producer in accordance with the Health Technical Memorandum 0701 (HTM 0701) and Legislative requirements.
Through regular guidance and advice, we take you through the process of good waste management. This process enhances your waste management efficiency, delivers appropriate segregation of waste for your business, and ensures that your staff are properly trained in waste types and how to dispose of them.
Combined with the implementation of service ‘agreements’, managed through our advanced operating system, Vector, we ensure that you get a high quality of service from your waste contractor, keeping costs under control thanks to our integral monitoring and validation processes.
It’s a tried and tested process that has saved our clients thousands of man hours, and millions of pounds each year.
Innovative solutions for the healthcare sector
Founded in 2014, Anenta was established to address the significant failings in the delivery of waste management solutions to the sector.
From day one we placed innovative solutions at the heart of all that we do.
That’s why we’ve invested millions of pounds in our contract waste management system, Vector.
Through AI and the deep analysis of data, we identify where efficiencies can be made based on your waste profile. We track every aspect of your service, analysing your healthcare waste contracts so that you don’t have to.
We also enable you to make variations to your existing or newly procured waste disposal contracts through service ‘agreements’, which are specific request – such as rescheduling a missed collection – made through Vector. Obliged to respond to these requests, healthcare waste contractors must confirm when a specific action will be undertaken, allowing us to set up KPIs and to monitor performance on your behalf.
Tracked against our smart invoice validation technology we swiftly identify any instances of mischarging, billing duplications, or incorrectly invoiced services. These can then be challenged by our team, ensuring that your service levels are as they should be and that you only ever pay for services that you use.
It’s an industry-leading approach that’s helped us deliver over £13m of direct savings to our clients, alongside millions of pounds of indirect savings.
All this is made possible through our dedication to innovation, the enhancement of efficiencies, service quality, and accountability.
Streamlining and standardising audits
Innovation at Anenta is a constant process. It’s why we continually invest in our client portal and our contract waste management platform, Vector.
It’s also why we’ve created a range of digital self-audit solutions, including our online clinical waste Pre-Acceptance Audit. This alone cuts the time taken for you to complete a Pre-Acceptance Audit – which you must have in place if hazardous waste including healthcare items is to be legally removed from site – from over 27 hours to just 30 minutes.
By streamlining and standardising the process, and by pre-populating much of the detail from Vector, we turn a time-onerous process into a simple one.
Used alongside our Duty of Care self-audit solution, the average time taken for your business to complete both audits could fall from six days to just 40 minutes.
Saving ICBs alone the equivalent of over £35m in man hours and auditing roles, it’s just one of the many ways that we constantly innovate to save our healthcare waste clients money.
Interested in learning more? Contact our team today.
Specifying and Procuring
Having the right waste contract in place is vital if you are going to cut costs and optimise quality of service.
For clients with existing contracts in place, we analyse these in depth to develop new service specificationsthat reflect your use and requirements accurately.
If you’re not an Anenta customer yet, we’ll work with you to understand how your current contract operates.We’ll utilise our substantial experience and analytical solutions to assess issues based on your existing invoices or bill backing data. With this information to hand, we’ll identify all areas for improvement and enhancement. We’ll also identify how we can help to realise cost savings.
Built around this holistic understanding of your business, we’ll source the right contract for your needs, individually designed to meet your unique requirements and set up to save you money. Using our network of waste providers, or those accessed through Public Sector Frameworks, we’ll find you your perfect partner. In this way we’ll provide a procurement solution that’s straight forward, aligned with your corporate financial instructions and your budgetary limitations.
Contact our team today to find out how we could help your organisation put the right procurement and specification process in place for your operation.
How else do we save you money?
Very occasionally, waste collection vendors have clauses in their contracts that allow contract billing. This is where waste collectors are able to bill for a set amount of waste regardless of the amount actually collected.
Unchecked, this can lead to bills that are far higher than they should be. Thanks to Anenta’s invoice validation process, where we check volumes and types of waste collected against that billed for, invoice irregularities such as these are swiftly picked up.
Saving ICBs over £1.4m in the last year alone, our contract billing alert service enabled our team to identify and challenge over 4,150 invoices before payment.
Concerned about contract billing and how much this could be costing your business? Contact our team today to find out how our invoice validation service could be saving your business hassle, time and money.