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Health Technical Memorandum 07-01: Safe Management of Healthcare Waste

This document has been produced as a best practice guide to the management of healthcare waste. Healthcare waste refers to any waste produced by, and as a consequence of, healthcare activities. For the purposes of this document, this guidance also applies to offensive/hygiene and infectious waste produced in the community from non-NHS healthcare sources. The document replaces the Health Services Advisory Committee’s (1999) guidance document ‘Safe disposal of clinical waste’. The guidance has been revised and updated to take into account the changes in legislation governing the management of waste, its storage, carriage, treatment and disposal, and health and safety.