Clinical medicinal waste from 2020 (FOI)Clinical medicinal waste from 2020 (FOI)
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05 February 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
1
Can you provide the following information with regards total clinical medicines waste from community pharmacies in Jersey for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 (community pharmacy medicines/clinical waste service will hopefully be ring-fenced in a particular incineration waste account):
2
Amount of annual medicines / clinical waste in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024:
a
total volume (kgs) of medicines / clinical waste from community pharmacies received for incineration
b
total cost in monetary value of the incineration/disposal service for that clinical waste
c
total cost in monetary value of the contents (ie the average cost of the medicines being incinerated) - or equivalent form of analysis of the value of the medicines being sent for incineration/destruction
Response
1, 2a and 2b
The Government of Jersey does not hold split figures for medicines and clinical waste received from community pharmacies or total amount received from all sources.
The following table provides the information we hold.
Cost and volume received re Clinical waste including medicines |
| Year | Weight of clinical waste/medicines received from community pharmacies (kg) | Disposal cost re clinical waste /medicines received from community pharmacies (£) | Total clinical waste including medicines received at the Clinical Waste Incinerator (kg) |
| 2020 | 8842 | 15,473.50 | 163,194 |
| 2021 | 9011 | 16,129.69 | 190,543 |
| 2022 | 8229 | 15,270.16 | 172,551 |
| 2023 | 7841 | 14,819.49 | 155,958 |
| 2024 | 7434 | 15,016.68 | 144,641
|
2c
The cost in monetary value of medicines sent for incineration is not held, therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.
Article applied
Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –
(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and
(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.
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