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• News - Wales - Surgery delay as instrument problem recurs . Last updated: 17 Aug 2010

  A health board is having to spend £200, 000 on new surgical instruments after a second round of problems with equipment over the summer.

  www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10999720

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  • News - Health - Surgical instrument inquiry call . Last updated: 31 Dec 2002

    Shadow Health Secretary Dr Liam Fox has called for a public inquiry into the safety of single-use surgical instruments.. There are currently no plans to reintroduce single use instruments."

    news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2617291.stm

  • News - Health - Surgical tool trade ethics fears . Last updated: 27 Jul 2006

    Pakistan and Malaysia are centres for surgical instrument manufacturing. The global trade in hand-held stainless steel surgical instruments was worth at least £352m a year, he added.

    news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5222180.stm

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• News - Suffolk - Firms seek better sterilisation . Last updated: 11 Mar 2005

  These pathogens can bond with stainless steel in surgical instruments and are resistant to high temperatures. The most vulnerable instruments are used for surgical, endoscopy and biopsy procedures.

  news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4339071.stm

• Programmes - Panorama - Your comments on Coming Clean

  Given the risks from surgical instruments I would like to see a similar investigation into the risks from vCJD from dentistry.

  news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/1650904.stm

• News - Oxfordshire - NHS tools 'made by child labour' . Last updated: 9 Dec 2008

  Workers are paid £1.40 a day to make surgical instruments British hospitals are buying surgical instruments made by children in dangerous conditions in Pakistan, an Oxford surgeon has claimed.

  news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7773206.stm

• Health: Needle hygiene on holiday

  BBC Needle hygiene on holiday Needle hygiene advice for travellers who need regular medical injections.. Needle hygiene on holiday Using needles and syringes without taking precautions greatly

  www.bbc.co.uk/health/treatments/travel/safe_needle.shtml

• Programmes - Programme highlights - CJD: The surgical threat?

  The Government announces a £200 million programme to improve the sterilisation and decontamination of surgical instruments.. Thursday, 4 January, 2001, 17:04 GMT CJD: The surgical threat?

  news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_at_one/prog.../1100851.stm

• News - Scotland - Surgical instruments stolen . Last updated: 19 Oct 2001

  Friday, 19 October, 2001, 14:48 GMT 15:48 UK Surgical instruments stolen The items were stolen from Monklands Hospital Surgical equipment worth thousands of pounds has been stolen from a hospital.

  news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_160.../1609016.stm

• Radio 4 - Factual - Nerves of Steel

  Today, it's forging ahead as a world-class centre for surgical instruments and orthopaedic implants.

  www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/k7lk5/