One billion items of PPE issued by NHS Scotland during the pandemic
As well as the PPE, waste collection costs have gone up as a result of the pandemic.
The NHS has awarded extra contracts worth more than £7m to collect used PPE and waste generated by the vaccination and testing programme.run by Spanish-owned Tradebe Healthcare. NHS figures show that in April this year the health service dealt with 1,633 tonnes of waste, up more than 200 tonnes on the same month in 2020.A spokeswoman for NHS National Services Scotland said: "The NHS Scotland response to Covid-19 witnessed a sudden increase in both the overall volume of healthcare waste and the type of healthcare waste produced right across the UK."During 2020, Covid-19 planning anticipated further waves.
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