Who needs staples?

A picture of a staple less stapler. A white device that looks a bit like a stapler on a purple faux leather background

Another small change for us in 2025 is the removal of staples from our patient report forms.

After we visit a patient we print a note of the aids we have prescribed and any advice we give.

The pages are then stapled together.

Although small, we have replaced our stapler with a new staple free stapler.

A traditional stapler pushes a metal staple through the paper and bending the edges of it to secure the page

The corner of a sheet of paper on a purple faux leather background. The page has the South Wales Low Vision clinic logo on it and a small hole in the visible corner where a staple free stapler was used to secure the page to one behind it.

Our new staple free stapler cuts a small tab in the page and feeds it through a small silt it also makes and secures the pages together.

This remove the need for the metal staple and makes the full report 100% recyclable at home when it is no longer needed.