As your independent waste management partner, we provide end-to-end waste management services, helping hospices manage their waste, comply with regulations, and control costs.
We specialise in supporting hospices with waste audits, contract management, procurement and ongoing service management, helping you understand what waste you produce and whether your current arrangements are right for your needs, giving you proper guidance and peace of mind.
Hospices manage a diverse range of waste, from clinical and pharmaceutical waste to general, offensive and sanitary waste. Ensuring each waste stream is correctly identified, segregated, collected and disposed of is essential for maintaining compliance and protecting patients, staff, visitors and waste handlers.
At Anenta, we take a practical, data-led approach to hospice waste management. We can carry out comprehensive waste audits on your current arrangements, and through our proprietary system, Vector, identify opportunities to improve waste segregation and efficiency, and provide the insight needed to ensure your waste contracts accurately reflect your requirements.
Whether you need assistance with waste audits, procurement of new contracts, professional management of existing waste disposal contracts, or support with ongoing operational management and financial control, we can help.
Hospices have a responsibility to manage their waste safely and in line with relevant legislation and guidance. Specifically, it is essential that they remain compliant with the latest regulations in respect of safe and responsible waste disposal.
Poor segregation, unsuitable storage and inadequate staff training can all lead to compliance issues. They can also result in waste being placed into more expensive waste streams unnecessarily, potentially costing your hospice many thousands of pounds in avoidable charges.
As hospices often have to deal with dangerous and unpleasant waste, such as sharps waste and offensive waste, which can pose significant risk to the public and staff if not properly disposed of, proper measures need to be in place.
We help hospices enhance their regulatory compliance, while protecting their public image and reducing the risk compliance failure that could result in legal penalties.
Working on your behalf, we help to put into place structured collections supported by proper management and effective disposal service. Through these measures, we help your hospice adhere to environmental regulations, recycling materials when possible.
Our audits help identify where processes can be improved and whether staff have the knowledge and training they need to manage waste correctly.
By reviewing waste management practices across your hospice, we can help you address issues and put clearer processes in place.
A waste audit gives you a better understanding of the waste your hospice produces and how it is currently being managed. It also plays a crucial role in shaping your waste management policy.
Our remote waste audit allows us to assess your waste arrangements without the need for lengthy on-site audits. It guides you through every step, ensuring compliance with waste management policies, recording information such as waste containers, room types, external storage areas, staff training, regulatory knowledge and waste management processes.
The app brings together duty of care checks and waste pre-acceptance assessments in one place, so you can see exactly how your hospice’s waste is being handled, from the ward or bedroom right through to final disposal.
Once the audit is complete, we provide a clear, jargon-free report with practical recommendations, giving you the evidence you need to make informed decisions about training, signage and contract negotiations.
This approach means your staff can be trained swiftly, appropriately and with relative ease – an increasingly important factor in a sector where staff turnover can be a problem. It also builds team awareness and understanding about proper use of waste streams, helping to prevent potentially costly and unnecessary cross-contamination of waste.
Hospices produce a wide range of waste types, reflecting the specialist palliative and end-of-life care they provide.
Anenta can support hospices with the collection and management of:
Understanding your waste profile helps make sure waste is placed into the appropriate stream and that you are not paying for unnecessary clinical waste services.
Misclassified waste is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes we see. When staff aren’t sure which stream an item belongs to, it often ends up in clinical waste by default, even when it doesn’t need to be there. Over a year, this can add hundreds of pounds per tonne to your waste costs, along with the compliance risk that comes with poor segregation. At a time when many hospices are struggling with tighter budgets and increasing costs, correct segregation can be an instant solution to significant savings.
All hospice waste should be segregated at the point of production. The solution is straightforward: clear guidance, proper training and a waste management policy your staff can actually follow. Our waste audits are designed to uncover exactly where these gaps exist, so you can put things right and make sure your budget is being spent where it’s needed most.
For hospices, every pound spent unnecessarily is a pound that isn’t going towards vital palliative care. Getting your waste management right means more of your budget stays where it belongs: with the people you’re caring for.
Failure to be waste compliant can be incredibly costly. Did you know that you could be paying up to an additional £700 per tonne for waste put in the wrong stream? Over the course of a year, this can be incredibly costly to your hospice.
When you consider that 70% of waste is consistently misplaced in the healthcare sector, it’s poor practice that need to be addressed. That’s why we’re here to guide you through effective solutions, that will help to reclaim valuable cash at the same time as optimising your waste disposal practices.
Anenta is an independent waste management partner. We work with healthcare organisations to manage their waste contracts, improve compliance and identify savings.
With Anenta, you can:
Our aim is simple: to help hospices manage their waste correctly, stay compliant, and avoid paying more than they need to.
Get in touch today to find out more about our hospice waste management services by contacting us on 03301 222143 or filling in our contact form.
Hospice waste includes both clinical and non-clinical waste generated through patient care and the day-to-day running of a hospice. This can include infectious waste such as used dressings and contaminated PPE, sharps such as needles and syringes, pharmaceutical and cytotoxic waste, as well as offensive waste including bedding and non-infectious absorbent hygiene pads. Hospices also produce general non-hazardous and sanitary waste as part of their everyday operations.
Correctly identifying and segregating these waste streams is important for safe handling, compliance and cost control.
Yes. We can tailor your waste management services around your hospice’s specific requirements, including the types and volumes of waste you produce, collection frequency and the number of sites you operate. We can also manage existing contracts or help you procure new services, making sure your waste arrangements are appropriate for your needs and budget.
We operate nationwide, supporting hospices to manage waste more effectively and achieve cost savings and efficiencies, whether you run a single site or several across the UK. We currently manage waste across more than 20,000 locations, including the NHS, ICBs, care homes, hospices, GPs and pharmacies. Contact us today to explore how we can support your hospice with tailored waste management services.
