Plan to reduce single-use medical devices to tackle NHS waste

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By Caitlin Doherty, PA Media

The way the NHS thinks about “the millions” it spends “has to change”, Wes Streeting has said, as he announced a crackdown on waste in the service.

The health secretary claimed that “millions of expensive medical devices are chucked in the bin” every year as a new strategy aims to cut the number of single-use medical devices.