Richard Bancroft, registered authorising engineer (decontamination) and science & technical director for STERIS Corporation, discusses the new HTM guidance for decontamination and examines what it means for the sector.
In 2016, the new English decontamination guidance, now known as HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06, was published. How does this herald the new direction for re-usable surgical instrument decontamination?
Many of us were familiar with the historical HTM 2010 and HTM 2030 (or, going back in time even further, HTM 10). The prior CFPPs were a new direction, and maybe the excitement of new guidance was tempered with the knowledge that we no longer had the prescriptive guidance of before that led the world of decontamination.
The new publication of the CFPP suite as HTMs invoked a rush of excitement, only to be brought down to earth by the realisation that the HTM guidance was almost the same as the prior CFPP, with the exception that there were new considerations from the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP).
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