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Top level system developed.

Nicholas Marshall
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Much attention in the healthcare engineering sector is focused on how the NHS programme for improving decontamination services will roll out. Shaping up is the way in which the private sector will be involved and in this article Nicholas Marshall examines a company's advanced system for cleaning and sterilising surgical instruments.

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Nicholas Marshall. 2004. Top level system developed.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15112604/

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