Decontamination Services and Solutions (Surgical Instrumentation)

In November 2023, there were 6.5 million individual patients on the waiting list for treatment – in addition to the total number of appointments and treatments currently on the waiting list – 7.77 million. To increase capacity and ease the pressure on elective surgery, the building and roll-out of surgical hubs is being scaled up across the country

In these environments, surgical and clinical teams are reliant on the quick and efficient turnaround of reprocessed and sterilised instruments to operate and undertake procedures, work through the backlog, and reduce further pressure on clinical services.

The Decontamination Services and Solutions Framework Agreement offers end-to-end decontamination solutions, ensuring the effective decontamination of surgical instruments and equipment, which is essential for patient safety and to avoid delays and inefficiencies in hospital operating theatres.

The framework agreement supports best practice, compliance, and drives sustainability and cost-effectiveness. It offers complete outsourcing of decontamination services, the ability for extra capacity to be provided either in an emergency or for the long term, or the option to augment a customer’s own facilities. There is also a specialist lot for the decontamination of high-level probes.

The Decontamination Services and Solutions Framework Agreement forms part of a wider solution that focusses on, ‘future-proofing estates and infrastructure’, helping to achieve NHSE estates and infrastructure targets.