United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 63802
Medical Equipment: Disease Control
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30 June 2025
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8 July 2025 · Answer
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Summary
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
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30 June 2025
Written question
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
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8 July 2025
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The 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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-06-30/63802
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1817829
- uk · wq-1817829 · source updated 8 July 2025