Protecting healthcare
workers from needlestick injuries
The Safer Needles Network is aimed at those concerned with reducing needlestick injuries and bloodborne exposures.
Needlestick accidents occur when healthcare workers jab themselves or a colleague with a needle, or other sharp medical device, which is contaminated with potentially infected blood.
Second only to back-injuries as a cause of occupational injury amongst NHS workers, an ongoing RCN surveillance project suggests that as many as 100,000 needlestick accidents occur in the UK every year.
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Feature Articles
Articles relating to research and issues surrounding needlestick injuries.
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4 DEC 2015
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Survey EU 2010/32 EU OSHA Focus Points
3 DEC 2015
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Glenis Willmott MEP hosts the 5th European Biosafety Summit
4 JUN 2015
Current News
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Relatives being taught to give patients injections
13 JAN 2017
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Investigation launched by PHE on needlestick injuries
12 JAN 2017
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WATCH: The impact of sharps injuries
15 JUL 2016
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Lab worker contracts Zika Virus from needlestick
10 JUN 2016
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GPs to have access to needle stick services
6 APR 2016
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Member of the public injured by needle
6 JAN 2016
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New guidance on managing sharps injuries released
11 DEC 2015
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4 DEC 2015
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NHS Tayside staff compensation exceeds half a million pounds
3 DEC 2015
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Survey EU 2010/32 EU OSHA Focus Points
3 DEC 2015