{"id":80,"date":"2024-05-15T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/nhs-borders\/additional-services\/medicines-waste-and-sharps-services\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:33:35","slug":"medicines-waste-and-sharps-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/pages\/additional-services\/medicines-waste-and-sharps-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines Waste and Sharps Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025-26-Sharps-Disposal-Service-Level-Agreement-Feb-2025.pdf\">Sharps Service Level Agreement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pharmacy teams can email <a href=\"mailto:TransportClinicalWasteEnq@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\">Loth.TransportClinicalWasteEnq@nhs.scot<\/a> for questions relating to collection schedules or to obtain extra bins. Patient queries should be directed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/patient-experience-team-tell-us-about-your-experience\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/yourrights\/patient-experience-team-tell-us-about-your-experience\/\">Patient Experience Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only patient returned medicines&nbsp;can be placed in your dispensary bins. All other items (e.g. expired stock, confidential waste, general waste, recycling) must be disposed of via your own private waste collection services. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waste must be segregated appropriately for collection. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A list of sites currently offering a sharps service is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/pharmacies\/important-updates\/\">NHS Lothian website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/Clinical-waste-segregation-poster-update-1025.pdf\" title=\"Clinical waste segregation poster update 1025\" class=\"link-to-media\">NHS Lothian Waste Poster <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Sharps Service Level Agreement Pharmacy teams can email Loth.TransportClinicalWasteEnq@nhs.scot for questions relating to collection schedules or to obtain extra bins. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/977"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}