Freedom of Information request 345-2024

Please can the following be actioned as a Freedom of Information request. In an attempt to understand the landscape across the NHS I am requesting information about clinical waste contracts. Please can you provide the information for the queries below for your trust. If your trust has split or amalgamated in the last 3 years, please could you break the information down into historic trusts as relevant. 1. Who is your current contractor for clinical waste collections? This will usually be one contractor for offensive/hazardous waste tiger and orange bags. as well as sharps however if you have more than one contractor, please could you name them all 2. Please could you confirm if you are in a specific contract for clinical waste management or if clinical waste is collected as part of a wider total waste management solution. If a part of a total waste management solution, the TWM provider should be named in question 1 3. If in contract for clinical waste management, please could you confirm the start date and the term of the contract? Could you please state if you contractually have the option extend past the standard duration and if so by how long? An example answer would be as follows. ‘Aug 2022 start date for 3 years with the option of +1 extension wrote into the contract’ 4. If known, please could you confirm how many separate sites clinical waste is collected from across your estate?