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<p>The Department published the inaugural Medical Technology Strategy in February
2023, which included a focus on improving resource efficiency. The Department is working
with industry, the health and care sector, and academic partners to develop medical
technology systems that support reuse, remanufacture, and materials recovery, by default.
Within the medical technology sector, the Department is exploring options for reuse,
remanufacture, and materials recovery in medical devices through its Design for Life
programme. This includes developing regulatory, commercial, infrastructure and policy
environments that support these aims.</p><p>The NHS clinical waste strategy, published
on 7 March 2023, sets out NHS England’s ambition to transform the management of clinical
waste by eliminating unnecessary waste, finding innovative ways to reuse, and ensuring
waste is processed in the most cost effective, efficient, and sustainable way.</p><p>NHS
England has developed a waste planning tool consistent with this clinical waste strategy
for all National Health Service providers, which includes improved segregation, waste
minimisation, and increased reuse programmes. This will lead to reductions in the
road miles that waste travels, increases in the use of re-usable sharps bins, and
plans made towards the achievement of Net Zero Carbon from waste management.</p>
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