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UNISON warns hospitals over needles

Public sector union UNISON is calling on hospitals to use safer needles to protect their staff, following the case of a care assistant who was stuck in the leg by a needle. She was stuck with the needle while putting rubbish in a bin. A plastic bag containing eight needles had been discarded on the floor next to it, instead of in the sharps bin.

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