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FOI Request 2085 - Decontamination Services
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Case Number 2085
Request Date 26/04/2010

Details of the Request

Does your Trust use onsite / offsite decontamination services for surgical instruments?

Does your Trust use a private company for the decontamination of instruments?

Expenditure on decontamination services for surgical instruments (2008-09)

Expenditure on decontamination services for surgical instruments (2008-09)

Number of operations that were cancelled due to unsuitably cleaned instruments.

Number of instruments broken by decontamination service.

Number of instruments not properly cleaned by service.

Number of instruments returned late by service.

Completion Date 29/06/2010


Details of the Response

Thank you for your request to Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust regarding decontamination services.


The Trust’s Clinical Governance Manager Theatres & Day Surgery Unit has responded.
  1. Does your Trust use onsite / offsite decontamination services for surgical instruments? –  ONSITE

  2. Does your Trust use a private company for the decontamination of instruments? –  NO

  3. Expenditure on decontamination services for surgical instruments (2008/09)  –  £ 1,019,905

  4. Number of operations in 2008 that were cancelled due to unsuitably cleaned instruments –  0

  5. Number of occasions in 2008 where instruments were broken by decontamination service –  0

  6. Number of occasions in 2008 where instruments were not properly cleaned by service –  0

  7. Number of occasions in 2008 where instruments were returned late by service –  0



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