Considerable challenges in ensuring patient safety.
John Prendergast, a decontamination engineer working within the specialist team at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership / Specialist Estates Services dedicated to decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices, considers 'the array of standards that are in place to provide rules, guidance, or characteristics, for various decontamination activities'. He also sets out some of the key steps to take to ensure that instrument decontamination is undertaken to the high standards needed to ensure patient safety.
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D003666:Decontamination / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D017743:Equipment Reuse / Q000592:standards; D061214:Patient Safety; D014852:Wales