A Knowsley-based company has designed and developed a range of products to help the NHS cut waste.
The ground-breaking technology is being pioneered in a partnership with the Innovation Centre at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and piloted with a number NHS trusts across England, as part of the NHS's carbon reduction and sustainability programme. The company, NeedleSmart, is helping the NHS reduce CO2 emissions in its clinical waste disposal by 95% as part of its Carbon Reduction Strategy, saving tens of millions of pounds in clinical waste destruction.
The NeedleSmart technology is also part of a programme to reduce and eradicate 100,000 needlestick injuries, which affect all healthcare workers across the NHS. This initiative alone will help save the NHS and its trusts more than £127 million each year, the company says.
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Claire Liddy, managing director of innovation at Alder Hey said: "At Alder Hey, we have been innovating for the past 100 years. We want to ensure that we are always standing at the leading edge of clinical innovation, sustainability and the green tech space. The technology presents lots of opportunities for us to also reduce waste and carbon ,which is a huge agenda for the NHS and Alder Hey as part of the NHS Carbon Reduction programme.
"We really want to be a hospital that is pioneering in the space of green tech. We think the NHS has a long way to go in the clean, green agenda, but we see the relationship between Alder Hey and NeedleSmart as being a great platform to achieve this as we work towards carbon net zero."
She added: "The partnership between Alder Hey Innovation Centre and NeedleSmart has a common purpose to innovate and disrupt. One of the biggest safety concerns for us across the NHS is needlestick injuries. So, we are excited to see how the technology can not only reduce those injuries, but also eliminate them all together."
