However pressing the need to achieve cost savings, healthcare facilities have to safeguard the highest standards of patient care, as well as the safety of staff and visitors. The medical and life sciences sector can strike this balance through more effective management of multiple waste streams and their water systems.
Your challenges
The
pressure to achieve economies in healthcare is relentless, particularly
in the state sector. Regulations on the handling and dispose of wastes –
from sharps to pharmaceutical, and hygiene to radioactive – are
necessarily strict. While procedures for managing these wastes may put
safety first, opportunities to improve efficiency are often overlooked.
Similar
challenges apply to industrial and domestic water systems, as well as
their potentially confusing framework of legislation and best practice
guidance. For many hospitals, improvements in the way their water
systems are designed and managed can be a significant and
under-exploited opportunity to achieve savings while also ensuring full
compliance.
At the same time, healthcare managers need to show a commitment to sustainability and minimising waste in all areas.
Our solutions
SUEZ
helps NHS hospitals and other healthcare premises improve the
sustainability and efficiency of their industrial and domestic water
systems, and their waste management.
Our water solutions achieve environmental benefits while reducing the
operating costs of treatment plants for water and effluent. They
include:
Advanced water purification systems for applications ranging
from low-volume laboratory units to high-flow ring-main solutions for
sterile services, decontamination and renal dialysis departments.
Protection against waterborne, hospital-acquired infections
using chemicals developed by our highly qualified chemists to eliminate
pathogens such as Legionella.
Greater energy efficiency and cost savings from our range of
engineered chemicals and dosing systems for boiler, cooling and hot and
cold-water systems.
Training in best practice safety protocols and processes for water systems in healthcare environments.
Our waste management service is comprehensive too. We audit waste flows
and existing practices, and design a tailored solution – so it supports
the efficiency of your operations as well as safeguarding staff,
patients and public.
We will ensure the safe and compliant segregation, storage, carriage, treatment and disposal of all wastes, including:
General waste and recyclables.
Hygiene waste.
Pharmaceutical waste.
Hazardous waste
Radioactive waste.
Sharps.
Our expertise
With
more than 40 years’ experience managing water and waste, SUEZ in the UK
can also draw on a bank of world-leading expertise within our global
group.
We offer the widest range of water purification systems,
chemicals, training and support services available from a single source.
This enables us to guarantee exceptional levels of water quality,
safety and hygiene.
SUEZ also has the specialist expertise and
national network of facilities to put wastes to good use, as well as
assuring complete compliance.
Our waste expertise extends from
segregation and logistics to treatment and operation of facilities for
processing hazardous wastes, including high-temperature incineration.
Our
staff are highly experienced in catering for the demands of hospitals,
clinics, dentists, nursing homes, and all generators of healthcare waste
of whatever size.
