What to do with medical equipment you don’t need?

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My mum has loads of unused catheter bags she was given by the hospital recently. She no longer needs them.

Should she just chuck them away? GP/district nurse can’t take them, hospital can’t take them, pharmacy can’t take them.

Seems such a waste!

The local nursing home should be glad of them.

We had a similar issue and found a local charity collecting for refugees abroad and were over the moon with medical things

There is a website called skiggle where people can list what they have and if others need it they can ask for it

https://www.skiggle.co.uk/

Maybe try your local facebook page. On my local facebook pages things like that are often posted as Doctors/PHN/Nursing Homes will not take them as they do not know they were stored correctly etc (this extends to crutches, wheelchairs etc)

They won’t take it either - she tried them yesterday.

Nowhere will take them because of infection control.

Someone on your Local Facebook fb page might take them.

Thanks!