Pre-Acceptance Audits
Sharpsmart’s Continual Improvement Team can help you achieve compliance and stay audit-ready with Pre-Acceptance Audits that identify risks, close gaps and align your practices with HTM 07-01.
An Expert Partner in Pre-Acceptance Audits
Supporting waste compliance from within the four walls.
A valid Pre-Acceptance Audit (PAA) is a legal requirement before waste can be collected from a facility. In spite of this, many healthcare organisations face delays in gathering documentation, unclear accountability and inconsistent approaches.
The result? Collections risk being delayed or stopped, compliance breaches go unnoticed, and facilities are left exposed to legal, financial and environmental consequences.
We changed the way healthcare approaches Pre-Acceptance Audits.
Sharpsmart’s Continual Improvement Team empowers your staff from within the four walls of your facility to deliver PAAs that go beyond a tick-box exercise. Conducted by our trained waste experts, our Pre-Acceptance Audits provide a clear view of your waste processes and a tailored action plan to ensure compliance and reduce risk.
Whether you’re a current partner of ours looking for Continual Improvement and Optimisation, or you already have a waste provider and are looking for expert guidance and support – we can use real-time data and clinical insights to help your teams:
- Stay compliant by ensuring all documentation and processes meet HTM 07-01 and NHS Clinical Waste Strategy requirements.
- Reduce risk by identifying gaps in segregation, storage and handling before they become breaches.
- Create improvement opportunities with tailored action plans and ongoing consultative support beyond the audit.
This isn’t just consultancy. It’s a hands-on partnership that safeguards compliance today whilst embedding long-term resilience into your facility’s waste strategy.
Our Continual Improvement & Optimisation Projects
We offer a variety of project-based solutions as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation solution…
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Offensive Waste Optimisation
Explore Offensive Waste Optimisation with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Waste Trends Audits
Explore Waste Trends Audits with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Simpler Recycling Solutions
Explore Simpler Recycling Solutions with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation programme.
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Waste Training and Education
Explore waste training and education with Sharpsmart as part of our Continual Improvement & Optimisation offering.
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Continual Improvement & Optimisation
Drive clinical outcomes with our Continual Improvement & Optimisation projects.
Real Results from Real NHS Trusts
Sharpsmart’s Pre-Acceptance Audits projects have helped other healthcare facilities just like yours achieve great results. See our case studies:
“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
“We’ve seen a 20% waste reduction…”
The introduction of the Bag to Bedside system has not only created a cleaner ward environment and more pleasurable patient experience, it has ensured that we have made significant reductions in both waste treatment costs and clinical waste output. Initial estimates following rollout show that we have diverted close to 50% of orange bag waste to the offensive and domestic waste streams, which has resulted in a 20% reduction in our costs for these waste streams.
Jeff Trevor, Waste Manager
University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust
“Exceptional Training…”
For a number of years I have had the pleasure of having Sharpsmart as a service provider and throughout the years I have been impressed with their commitment to customer service. We have not only been the recipient of good quality service, our staff have been provided exceptional training by informative and dedicated staff. Our questions and issues are always addressed in a timely manner and the team at Sharpsmart have always gone above and beyond our expectations.
Catherine Lockwood, Manager – Customer Support Services
Joseph Brant Hospital
“Sustainability is Incredible…”
We’ve used Sharpsmart for over four years. The traceable sustainability of the Sharpsmart containers is incredible.
Clare Topping, Energy & Sustainability Manager
Northampton General Hospital
The Sharpsmart Difference
Healthcare Waste Management cost efficiencies are derived from the successful deployment of five key elements.
At Sharpsmart we work closely with our customers to ensure that all healthcare staff are protected, trained and equipped, that the facilities’ risk profile is managed, and that costs associated with the handling of healthcare waste are minimised. Learn more about how Sharpsmart engages these five key elements to deliver cost-savings, safety, compliance, segregation and labour efficiencies to healthcare facilities across the United Kingdom.
Safety
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our highest commitment is safety; through intelligent products, systemised solutions and bespoke training, we work with our customers to reduce needlestick injuries and bloodborne pathogen exposure, minimise infection transfer risk, and provide solutions that protect the safety of staff and patients.
Sustainability
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our reusable products and environmentally responsible treatment services are designed to increase segregation accuracy, reduce CO2 burden and minimise waste volumes going to landfill. Through waste mapping, auditing and environmentally graded solutions, we work with our customers to achieve the highest green ratings.
Efficiency
The Sharpsmart Difference
Sharpsmart optimises the efficiencies of healthcare environments through smart products, point-of-use solutions, process re-engineering and redefined waste handling methodologies. Significantly reducing labour through point-of-use bagless containment systems, wall mounting accessories and logistical solutions, our customised services guarantee optimised time and movement efficiencies and optimised costs.
Compliance
The Sharpsmart Difference
Experts in the regulatory complexities governing the healthcare sector, we position ourselves as an astute partner delivering expert guidance and compliant solutions to our customers. All Sharpsmart solutions are vetted against federal, provincial and municipal regulations and executed through waste plans and training to achieve optimised safety and compliance.
Education
The Sharpsmart Difference
Our ongoing commitment to educate staff within healthcare ensures that together we achieve greater safety awareness and drive behavioural change in waste management, segregation, compliance and best practice management. Through onsite training, educational material and module-based e-learning, we ensure all healthcare staff are trained and compliance certified.
FAQ’s
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