The Principles of Medical Device Decontamination

References / Sources

1 Department of Health. Health Building Note 13: Sterile services department available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/planning-and-design-of- sterile-services-departments-hbn-13/

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2 Depertment of Health NHS. The Decontamination of Surgical Instruments in the NHS England, Update report “Step Change”, available at http://data.parliament. uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2008-1265/DEP2008-1265.pdf

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