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Our clinically-focused solutions for Hospices, Elderly and Palliative Care, take the complexity out of managing healthcare waste so you can focus on providing the highest level of care to your community.

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Looking for a single vendor to handle all healthcare waste streams?

With over 30 years of clinical experience serving senior living communities and care homes, Sharpsmart is focused on delivering sharps, pharmaceutical and clinical waste solutions that make sense from all standpoints of safety, sustainability, cost effectiveness and efficiency. We are full of personality and love the customer-service side of what we do! Ultimately we strive to achieve invisibility – invisibility of clinical waste moving through your facility, seamlessness of service with minimal patient interruptions, and solutions that are easy to use and hassle free so you can focus 100% on those in your care.

With a national service infrastructure, Sharpsmart are industry experts in the regulatory compliance and governance of collecting, transporting and treating all healthcare waste streams including sharps, clinical, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical waste. In a primary care-based facility, we understand the need for waste solutions and services that minimise, rather than interrupt, the continuum of care; our unique point of difference is that we work within the four walls of a facility to drive cost, safety and environmental outcomes – there’s no point getting involved when the waste gets to the collection point, the damage is already done. Offering tailored education and compliance expertise, clinical training in waste segregation and safe disposal, and waste audits to monitor segregation adoption – we partner with our customers to deliver waste minimisation and cost saving results at a site level. We don’t just deliver a clinical waste service, we deliver a clinical solution that radically optimises the safety, labour, cost efficiencies and green ratings of your facility.

A Unique Approach to Infection Risk Minimisation

In senior living communities across the UK, infections are a major cause of hospitalisation. Our solutions to combat infection risk include:

  • Point-of-use system for segregating waste at the point waste is generated, eliminating need for secondary touches
  • Hands-free Sharpsmart sharps container system clinically proven to reduce needlestick injuries and occupational risk
  • Container mounting and movement systems that eliminate cross-contamination and hand-contact with waste bins or waste bags
  • Collection, Storage and transport solutions that ensure containers are never exposed to ground cross-contamination
  • Our industry-leading Vacsmart system that vacuum seals contaminated wastes and ensures outbreak containment
  • Robotic container washing and sanitisation process that achieves a 6log bacterial load reduction, the highest in the industry!

Safe, Ecological and Cost-minimising waste solutions for Laboratories, Universities and Research Facilities

Contamination-free Clinical Waste Containers

Sharpsmart’s clean container movement is changing the industry’s perception of how clinical waste should be disposed and transported.

In typical healthcare settings, reusable containers are lined with a bag and decanted once the bag is full. This practice leads to bins in patient environments not been cleaned, harbouring pathogens and accelerating risk of cross-contamination. At Sharpsmart, all of our sharps, clinical waste, cytotoxic and pharmaceutical containers are hands-free, and furthermore undergo a rigorous 6-stage robotic washing decontamination and sanitisation process after each use. We are proud to be “moving the goalposts” of what safety in clinical waste containers should look like, our results across needlestick injury reduction, segregation, cost reduction and landfill diversion prove that we’re on the right path!

Why Choose Us?

Sharpsmart offers a different kind of partnership

“Different” is often subjective, a different perspective, a different approach, a different focus, vision or personal preference. For us at Sharpsmart, DIFFERENCE embodies all these things, but it also delivers a very different result. Reduction in needlestick injuries, reduction in waste volumes, reduction in costs, reduction in labour, increase in efficiencies, compliance, trust. We don’t promise you a different methodology, we promise you transformation of your current practices.

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Secure pharmaceutical waste management

Protecting staff and facilities in the collection of expired drugs and controlled substances

Setting a new industry benchmark in secure pharmaceutical waste management, the Sharpsmart pharmaceutical containment system mitigates unnecessary risk for healthcare practitioners and the public in the containment, disposal, transport and destruction of partially used or expired medications. Through its safety-engineered design, our unique containment system eliminates tampering, pillaging and misappropriation of discarded pharmaceuticals.

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Essentially you’re paying for air in a bag of crisps!

33% of volume from every disposable container is the plastic it’s manufactured with!

This means that for each container you fill, you’re unnecessarily paying for (and sending to incineration) 33% more waste volume than is required. Furthermore, per UN regulations, each disposable sharps or clinical waste container must be transported in secondary packaging – this usually means a lot of cardboard. Again… not required! At Sharpsmart we think differently, and reusability is especially close to our heart because it means reduced costs, reduced risk to staff and patient safety, reduced handling, and reduced impact on the environment in the disposal of sharps and infectious waste. For us it’s quite simple, you’re not paying for the air in a crisp packet AND you are getting the safest and, quite honestly, the most beautiful clinical waste containers in the industry!

Our Radical Approach

Our Radical approach seeks to:

  • Eliminate or significantly reduce offensive and infectious waste
  • Eliminate needlestick injury risk with engineered sharps containment systems
  • Eliminate the purchasing and assembly of single-use disposable containers
  • Optimise segregation through staff training, intuitive education systems, waste audits and reporting
  • Minimise your risk exposure – It is our drivers and our trucks that will service your facility
  • Make waste flow invisible and unobtrusive; minimising disruption to patient care
  • Be transparent (especially in our pricing) and make you happy!

The most innovative and cost-effective long term care waste solutions in the United Kingdom

  • IMMEDIATE COST REDUCTION

    Sharpsmart’s solutions ensure correct waste stream distribution, clinical waste and packaging volume reduction, and reduced liability.

  • POINT OF CARE DISPOSAL

    Our accessories enable sharps and clinical receptacles to be positioned at patient bedside, enabling waste disposal at the point of generation.

  • MINIMISED INFECTION TRANSFER

    Our reusable containers are cleaned and sterilised after each use through a 6-stage robotic wash and sanitisation process.

  • REDUCED CROSS CONTAMINATION

    Foot pedal sharps and waste container operation eliminates hand access, infection-transfer and cross-contamination risks.

  • REUSABLE AND ECO FRIENDLY

    Our ecologically designed solutions positively impact sustainability targets, minimise landfill and drive significant CO2 reductions.

  • SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE

    Experts in navigating the complexities of national regulations, Sharpsmart ensures compliance throughout the waste management process.

“Would recommend to everyone…”

We are extremely pleased with the service we are receiving from Sharpsmart. The sharps bins are a lot safer than what we were previously using and can be wall mounted really easily. Collections are always on time and consignment notes provided. We would recommend Sharpsmart to anyone and everyone.

Dental Elements, Leatherhead Surrey

“14% clinical waste reduction…”

Before using Sharpsmart, we were having issues with sharps bins not being correctly used, increasing the risk around sharps disposal. Through the introduction of Sharpsmart, the amount of clinical waste we send for incineration has reduced to 14% of our clinical waste – a saving of 10 tonnes per year – just by removing the plastic containers.

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

“Reduces our footprint…”

The reason why we chose to use the Sharpsmart sharps container was due to the sustainability issues of being able to recycle the actual sharps bin rather than incinerating them and causing more issues with carbon footprint.

June Ayre, Infection Control Matron

George Eliot Hospital

“Reduced Clinical waste by 58%…”

From switching over to the Sharpsmart system: in a 12-month period, we reduced our clinical waste by 58%. That in turn saved our organisation nearly £7,500.

Steve Egbert, CHESP, General Manager

Sodexo, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center

“Always there to help…”

The Sharpsmart team are committed to us as a customer and are a pleasure to deal with. I would highly recommend them.

Sandra Fenwick, Waste Officer

Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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