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HERITAGE HEALTHCARE AWARDED EMERGING
FRANCHISOR OF THE YEAR Home care provider Heritage Healthcare has been crowned ‘Emerging Franchisor of the Year’ by the British Franchise Association (BFA).
The Emerging Franchisor of the Year Award recognises businesses that the BFA considers to be an upcoming household name within the franchise sector, likely to continue significant growth through use of the Franchise Model. This year, Heritage Healthcare was able to beat off stiff competition and bring the award back into the homecare sector.
Heritage Healthcare began its journey into franchising in 2012, aſter opening four of its own home care offices within
RECOMED WINS NATIONAL RECYCLING AWARD FOR MEDICAL
PVC RECYCLING RecoMed, the PVC medical devices take-back scheme, has been crowned joint winner of the Waste Prevention category of the 2017 National Recycling Awards for its innovative approach to sustainable healthcare recycling.
The accolade is the third in just two years for the UK-wide scheme, which is run by project partners Axion Consulting, a resource recovery specialist, and the British Plastics Federation (BPF). Set up in 2014, RecoMed supplies recycling containers, communication materials and collections to participating NHS and private hospitals.
Funded by VinylPlus, the voluntary commitment to sustainable development by the European PVC industry, the scheme provides an alternative, sustainable disposal route for waste medical items made from high-quality medical grade PVC. This material has been recycled back into new goods, such as horticultural products, by specialist recyclers.
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the North East of the country in as many years. The team of Directors, who together have over 80 years’ of experience in the home care industry, had the dream of providing expert care at home nationally and, to do this, took on the franchise model.
Heritage Healthcare now has 20 offices across the UK and continues to witness significant growth. The network, as a whole, is committed to ensuring that every single client receives a unique standard of care, perfectly tailored to their individual needs. This commitment to quality has seen numerous Heritage Healthcare offices be recognised within the regional
Homecare.co.uk awards, as well as further local business awards and a national franchisee of the year award.
Heritage Healthcare Director, Michelle Fenwick, who herself began her career
as a Home Care Assistant, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to have won Emerging Franchisor of the Year. Oſten, home care receives bad publicity, which is something that we truly believe each of our offices and franchisees contradicts.
“We could not have won such an incredible award without the support of our clients and our business partners – we hope that 2017 continues to be our year!”
www.heritagehealthcare.co.uk
Praising the scheme, the judges commented: “This showed great initiative in changing behaviour in a sector that is notoriously difficult to establish effective waste segregation at source.”
The National Recycling Awards, organised by Materials Recycling World magazine, celebrate excellence, innovation and best practice across every aspect of waste management: recycling, recovery and reuse.
L-R: Keith Riley, Director of BH Energy Gap, who was one of the judges; Jane Gardner; Alistair McGowan
Collecting the award at a ceremony at the London Hilton, Park Lane, on behalf of Axion and the BPF, Axion’s Principal Consultant Jane Gardner said: “We’re thrilled and very proud to win this high-profile award, which recognises the tremendous achievements of all participants and hospitals in recycling plastics from the medical waste stream.
“Now operating in ten hospitals, RecoMed continues to grow and is attracting more and more interest. The scope for development is huge as the scheme could ultimately be replicated across Europe. We are particularly impressed with the enthusiasm and commitment of clinicians without whom this scheme would not be possible.”
In 2016, RecoMed won the Sustainability category of the 2016 INOVYN Awards for its innovative approach to sustainable healthcare recycling. The previous year, RecoMed’s excellence in sustainability was recognised with the 2015 Association for Anaesthetic and Respiratory Device Suppliers (Barema) and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) Environment Award.
It is estimated that up to 2,250 tonnes of PVC could be recycled by collecting items, such as anaesthetic facemasks, oxygen masks and associated tubing, from UK hospitals. Participating hospitals save money on waste disposal costs by recycling non- infectious PVC medical items instead of sending them to clinical waste streams which are either incinerated or sent to specialist landfill sites.
www.axionconsulting.co.uk www.tomorrowscare.co.uk
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