Wednesday 16 July 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8589
Date Request Received: 15/04/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 30/04/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Waste Management
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Do you have a waste management software in place in your NHS Board currently? If so, which software are you using? | |
| Answer To Question 1: No | |
| Question Number 2: How do you ensure compliance is followed in regard to storing Hazardous Waste Consignment Notes? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Hazardous waste Notes are reviewed and filed as received and kept in a monthly folder for the year in question. Our Pre-Acceptance Auditor checks annually a random number for correctness. Our DGSA also checks quarterly. | |
| Question Number 3: How do you store Waste Transfer Notes? | |
| Answer To Question 3: Waste Transfer Note’s are filed as received, if hard copy filed on a folder, if soft copy kept in a monthly folder for the year in question | |
| Question Number 4: What reporting, if any, do you produce based on data from Hazardous Waste Consignment Notes or Waste Transfer Notes? | |
| Answer To Question 4: Our Clinical Waste Contractor provides Quarterly Hazardous Waste Reports in e-copies which are filed by year under Contractor. Their monthly summary report is the one we use for reporting tonnage and cost against EWC code / Clinical Waste Type. Our non clinical waste contractor includes Hazardous waste metrics in their monthly dashboard report and I use this together with other waste stream data to populate my Facilities monthly report to Forum. | |
| Question Number 5: How many hours a month are spent on: Storing/Organising Waste related documents, reporting on information contained in Hazardous Waste Consignment Notes/Waste Transfer Notes | |
| Answer To Question 5: Approx 10 hours across Administrator & Senior Manager. | |
| Question Number 6: On average, how many Hazardous Waste Consignment Notes per month do you receive? | |
| Answer To Question 6: The Trust receive an average of 60 HWCN’s for clinical waste and a further 6 approx related to other Hazardous Waste per calendar month | |
| Question Number 7: On average, how many Waste Transfer Notes do you receive per month? | |
| Answer To Question 7: About 6 per month | |
| Question Number 8: What processes are in place to verify waste contractors are providing the correct documentation and operating with correct permits? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Duty of Care Visits Annually. Pre-Acceptance Audits Annually. Weekly monitoring by Senior Manager. Quarterly check by DGSA. | |
| Question Number 9: What is your waste audit process? | |
| Answer To Question 9: Pre Acceptance Audits annually; daily waste store inspections by Team Leader; ad hoc waste store inspections by senior manager; Waste Consultant Quarterly Checks | |
| Question Number 10: What is the contact information for your department that deals with Waste Management? | |
| Answer To Question 10: The Trust have a dedicated mailbox sft.waste-grounds-recycling@nhs.net | |
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