An expert look at the key changes within the DH’s recently updated decontamination guidance for surgical instruments and endoscopes in HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06.
Dr Jimmy Walker, scientific leader for Water and Decontamination, Biosafety, Air and Water Microbiology Group, at Public Health England,1 Philip Ashcroft, principal Buildings & Facilities Management Services engineer, NHS Estates & Facilities Policy: Commercial Division Finance, Performance and NHS, at the Department of Health,2 and Christina Bradley, of the Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham,3 look in detail at the key changes within the Department of Health’s recently updated decontamination guidance for surgical instruments and endoscopes in HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06.1,2
The Department of Health (England) recently updated its decontamination guidance for surgical instruments and endoscopes.1,2 The guidance documents have been retitled as Health Technical Memoranda, rather than the previous ‘Choice Framework for Policies and Procedures’ or CFPPs. This change has been welcomed by an industry traditionally accustomed to HTM nomenclature. The changes within the HTMs have been driven by research commissioned by the Department of Health to understand the epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, and the risk of the transmission of prion protein.3
Prions
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