title: District nurses must do more to comply with health care sharps regulations.
abstract: The Health and Safety Executive have completed an inspection initiative focussing on the prevention and management of sharps injuries in forty NHS organisations. Health and safety breaches were found in 90% of the services visited and inspectors issued improvement notices to 45% of those NHS organisations. In this article Richard Griffith sets out the key findings of the inspection initiative and considers their impact on district nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D016602:Needlestick Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Health and Safety Executive; improvement notices; inspections; sharps injuries