Placenta Collection Kit
This kit has been specially developed for Placenta Practice by a leading bio-medical scientist, specialising in safe organ transportation for the NHS, with input in design from Environmental Health Office UK.
This kit was the very first of its kind in the UK, introduced in 2016. It was designed with safety and convenience in mind. Using the kit ensures your placenta is kept below critical temperatures during storage at the hospital and transportation to our practice.
We use specialist time and temperature monitoring equipment with all collections. These allow us to ensure critical temperatures are never breached and that your placenta is always kept at the optimum temperature. Our monitoring equipment are used in such industries as medical testing, vaccinations, blood banks and by the NHS.
Using the kit also drastically reduces the unfortunate instances of lost placentas within hospitals. It is designed to be kept with clients at all times, to ensure accountability for its whereabouts is not transferred to busy hospital staff.
It's worth noting most hospitals are not able to look after placentas. Those that do use specimens fridges, where your placenta may be placed next to specimens waiting to go to pathology or for testing. Hospital staff who try to help may store the placenta in any available fridge, which may mean the placenta is moved from your ward to an entirely different ward in the hospital.
All our kits are single use only and non-refundable. This ensures we maintain the very highest of hygiene standards.
Price £50
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How does it work?
Kit is includes everything you need to safely store your placenta, including ready to use pre-printed labels.
Placenta Collection Kit will be delivered with a number of specialist gel packs. Clients will freeze these gel packs ahead of time. Gel packs are then left in the freezer until they are needed for the birth. Once the frozen gel packs are placed into the kit, they will remain cold for up to 72 hours.
Once the placenta is placed in the kit, it will maintain safe temperature levels for up to 12 hours.
