Healthcare
This environmental guidance is for businesses that provide healthcare and associated services. This includes alternative therapists, care homes, community healthcare centres, dental surgeries, dispensing pharmacies, healthcare clinics, as well as healthcare management companies and providers.
Find out how to:
- deal with healthcare waste, such as clinical waste, offensive waste, sharps and medical laboratory waste
- avoid causing pollution when you use hazardous substances, such as chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- protect surface waters and ground watersÂ
- reduce, reuse and recycle your waste.
This guidance is relevant to healthcare professionals, such as dentists, dispensing pharmacists, doctors, medical laboratory technicians, nurses, physicians, practice managers, and practitioners.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Pollution prevention guidelines (PPGs)
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Buying eco-friendly goods and services
- Cutting your carbon emissions
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- Generate renewable energy
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Anatomical waste
- Clinical waste
- Cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs
- Waste dental amalgam fillings
- Non clinical waste from healthcare premises
- Laboratory waste
- Offensive waste
- Pharmaceutical waste
- Sanitary waste
- Sharps
- Waste compactors
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Segregation of healthcare or medical waste
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