Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 63802
Medical Equipment: Disease Control
Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025
Question
Graeme Downie
Labour — Dunfermline and Dollar
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what methods the NHS uses to sterilise equipment to help prevent vCJD contamination; how long these methods have been used for; and what assessment he has made on the effectiveness of these methods
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe National Health Service in England employs a stratified approach, combining extended autoclaving, enhanced washing, prion specific chemicals, and the destruction of high-risk instruments. The Health Technical Memorandum 01-01: Management and decontami...
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