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Tackling hospital drainage systems to minimise risk

Steven Van De Peer, an Authorising Engineer (Water) at Tetra Consulting, discusses what he believes are ‘some of the opportunities for the UK to lead’ in the design of hospital wastewater systems.

Here, in the third in a series of articles running in HEJ this year on hospital wastewater systems, Steven Van De Peer, an Authorising Engineer (Water) at Tetra Consulting, discusses what he believes are ‘some of the opportunities for the UK to lead in such systems’ design’. He warns that the only way to eliminate the risks associated with drainage systems in the healthcare environment is to entirely remove the services.

I should begin this article by emphasising that the potential solutions put forward in the piece have not been trialled, and are intended to encourage further consideration of how to tackle some of the problems and issues around healthcare water systems.

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