13 June 2019

Medisort Ltd 
Unit A
Fort Road	
Littlehampton
West Sussex
BN17 7QU

Dear Sir/Madam

RE: Clinical Waste Collection Service 

I am writing on behalf of Chichester Alliance of Medical Practices (ChAMP), with regards to the Clinical Waste Collection Service you provide in collaboration with Chichester District Council. I refer to the following waste types:

	Type of waste	EWC Code	Description	
1	Sharps	18-01-03 &
18-01-09	Discarded syringes and needles in a yellow/orange lidded sharps container	
2	Offensive waste	18-01-04	Non-infectious incontinence pads, bed pan liners, stoma bags etc. in yellow sacs with black stripe	
3	Infectious waste	18-01-03	Waste deemed to be infectious/potentially infectious and is subject to special treatment for disposal, such as infected wound dressings, in orange sacks	

The ‘Application for Clinical Waste Collection Form’ requires completion by a Community Nurse, GP, Practice Nurse or Consultant is additional work for the teams, for which there is no payment. Therefore, this is something which practices within ChAMP have long felt we should not be doing. 

At a recent ChAMP meeting it was agreed that all GP’s or Practice Nurse’s within ChAMP will no longer agree to complete these forms, and to this end I would be grateful if you could remove the request for this from your forms as soon as possible. Just to confirm these practices include:

•	Cathedral Medical Group
•	Langley House Surgery
•	Lavant Road Surgery
•	Parklands Surgery
•	Selsey Medical Practice
•	Southbourne Surgery
•	Tangmere Medical Centre    
•	Witterings Medical Centre    

I am of course unable to speak on behalf of the Community Nursing Teams or Consultants.

Many thanks.

Yours faithfully

Angie Harris-Burland
Practice Manager 
Witterings Medical Centre