WHAT’S NEW? CHSA Members Committed


to Standards Providing feedback on their motivation for membership, members of the CHSA Accreditation Schemes for Distributors, Soft Tissue, Plastic Refuse Sacks and Industrial Cotton Mops universally cited their commitment to standards.


They acknowledged the success of the CHSA in sustaining standards, in particular, welcoming the launch of the Accreditation Scheme for Distributors in January this year as a significant step forward.


Vernon Holmes, Vice Chairman of Scot Young Research said: “We welcomed the launch of the Accreditation Scheme for Distributors in January 2017. It built on the work the CHSA had already done to drive up standards. Now, more than ever, end users can be confident they get a quality product from CHSA members.”


The Schemes are making increasingly difficult for companies to mislead customers. One of the first to join the CHSA’s Accreditation Scheme for Distributors, Dave Bruce,


RPC BPI Recycled Products, said, they are not experts in the products:. “Our membership of the Accreditation Scheme means they don’t have to be,” he said. “They just need to look for the marque to be certain they are getting the quality product promised on the label.”


Scheme members value the inspection process, which underpins each of the Accreditation Schemes. Lorcan continued: “An Accreditation Scheme is only as good as the rigour of the auditing process, which is where the CHSA excels. It’s a stringent process, which gives all of us as members, as well as our customers, real confidence in the Scheme.”


Director of DJB Supplies explained: “The CHSA Accredited Distributor Scheme means there’s a level trading platform. This platform is only getting stronger as more and more distributors join the Scheme.”


Their customers value their membership of the CHSA Accreditation Schemes. As Lorcan Mekitarian, Sales Director of


The CHSA operates four Accreditation Schemes, one for distributors and three for manufacturers, one each for Soft Tissue, Plastic Refuse Sacks and Industrial Cotton Mops. Should a member of any of the Schemes fail to meet the relevant standard, they may be ultimately expelled, a sanction the CHSA has not had to resort to in recent years.


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first time, creating efficiencies either when in-house decontamination is running at full capacity, department refurbishments are required, or equipment has reached the end of its eight-to-ten-year lifecycle.


Market’s First Mobile Decontamination


Unit Launched Endoscopy departments across the UK now have access to the UK’s first mobile decontamination unit, marking a groundbreaking innovation for the endoscopy market that will save hospitals considerable time and money.


Quest+ Decontamination is the latest facility from leading mobile medical unit provider, EMS Healthcare, and was developed


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following a number of requests from healthcare providers facing increasing capacity challenges.


Currently, in order to meet demand, healthcare providers must either use external decontamination services – an expensive process that can take days to complete – or transfer the decontamination suite to a new location within the hospital estate, which can often result in ward closures.


The new unit enables hospitals to continue endoscope reprocessing services, without disruption for the


Keith Austin, CEO at EMS Healthcare, commented: “We work closely with healthcare providers to respond to their challenges and Quest+ Decontamination is a great example of our innovation in action. The unit offers hospitals a viable option for proactive equipment and capacity planning, as well as a quick solution in the face of emergency situations, aiding clinicians in the delivery of sustainable and uncompromised care.”


With the demand for gastrointestinal endoscopy set to exceed 2.4million procedures per annum by 2019/2020, up 44% since 2013/14, Quest+ Decontamination is being introduced as growth rates hit an all-time high.


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