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I recently couriered out badges to Diploma and Certificate graduates. Sadly I have received two back with "not known at this address" ...

ASP are providing an opportunity to add to your education hours through an interesting webinar: The outbreaks with duodenoscopes...

Kia ora, An issue has presented itself with the membership page where you can sign up as a new member but then logging in again at a...

Hi all I am attaching the latest update that I have received from the Ministry of Health re the standards. While this directly affects...

Following on from my previous email I have finally received a reply from the loan set companies, re them putting their loan kit into...

There is still a national shortfall in sterilizing wrap from most of the approved companies. The base product for wrap appears to being...

This is the latest edition of this interesting and informative review. Infection_Prevention_and_Control_Research_Review_Issue_11

Kia ora, while the registration of members is completed the following pages are now freely accessible: Registration, library and...

Today I attempted to send an email to many of our members. I had numerous rejects which stated that the email address was invalid. ...

Hi all I received an interesting email with photos this morning regarding the above RMD. The manager of the CSSD concerned had been...

I have recently been contacted by several of you regarding the dirty conditions in which loan sets arriving in for use. More often than...

The NZSSA have activated the member only access to certain pages for the website. This was a decision taken by the executive to ensure...

As you may be aware ASP(Sterrad) sent out communications stating that you may be able to sterilise single use N95 masks. The...

The article below may be of interest to you all. It supports the theory that reusing masks can be endangering the lives of health workers....

Many of you will have received a communication from ASP stating that during this Covid 19 Pandemic it MAY be acceptable to reprocess N...

Hi all information just received from Zentralsterilisation the official journal of the WFHSS. " Are any additional measures required...

The NZSSA received a question asking if we should be doing anything different in CSSD during this crisis. The answer is: NO. Do what you...

Following on from my last post regarding AS/NZS 4187, and my letter writing to those in high places, I have attended a meeting at the...

Recently you may have all heard rumblings regarding the standard AS/NZS4187:2014 NZ has representation on the joint standard committee...