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Temporary SSD unit achieves the ‘impossible’

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust has been able to under take a full sterile services refurbishment project without disrupting services.

In its six months of operation, a temporary sterile services facility supplied by SSD, to Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust has enabled the busy department to continue working, processing an increased workload while achieving a KPI on breakdown callouts of just six hours and three minutes.

Like many other hospitals the refurbishment of sterile services at Bath had been postponed on a number of occasions while patient-facing schemes were given priority. This led to an increasing number of issues and cancellations as the equipment reached the end of its working life.

Soby Joseph, the Trust’s sterile services and decontamination manager, explained: “The ongoing SSD centralisation project, which is now nearing completion, sees both endoscopy and instrument reprocessing located in one facility.”

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