On the 1st of November decontamination services transferred from Essentia at GSTT to the Royal Free London as part of a three-year contract to deliver the reprocessing of medical devices for North Middlesex Hospital.
The reprocessing facility, which opened in 2019 and is located in Enfield just off the A10, is a state-of-the-art sterile service reprocessing unit which has the greatest capacity in the country. A team of over 90 staff are employed within the unit, which handles over four million medical devices per annum operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The new contract not only supports the local community in terms of its locality within the community by supporting employment in the local area. The units’ green credentials are also a reason to celebrate.
Electric vehicles play a vital role in the distribution network and in turn support the sustainability agenda. Delivery and collection schedules operate throughout the day from 06.00 am through to 22.00 hrs each day and to put this into context the North Middlesex contract removes 4.8 tonnes of Co2 emissions through the use of electric fleet per annum, the equivalent of driving four times around the globe inn the average car.
