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Good morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with
several people and I get different answers!I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not
specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg
Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant
Investigations (State Archive).Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in
each State/Territory?Thank you
Joe
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Afternoon Joe,
When I first came on to manage a CSSD in SA government hospital around 2010, I made similar enquiries to our State Records department. This was in part due to a towering pile of physical records in the sub-sub-basement of the building, going back many years and of dubious completion. The requirement in AS4187:2003 at the time was that sterilisation records should be “controlled and retrievable” and I had come upon a situation which was neither.
The General Disposal Schedule for government health records made no reference to sterilisation and reprocessing, so I worked with a couple of officers in State Records to add something into the next version. AS4187 had already specified the list of documents which shall be kept in the running of a reprocessing facility, so we decided that the entry should read “…as required by Standards” or similar. That way, regulatory changes to the required documentation would just carry over.
As for the retention period, the advice of State Records was that of a 15 year period.
Section 3.8.2 of the GDS28 was the final product.
We then had a wonderful time cataloguing, re-boxing and sending all of the records off for storage. Luckily the hospital where I am involved now has a fully electronic tracking system, so the volume of physical records is not only greatly reduced but we can make more of them electronic themselves.
Regards,
Andrew Ellis
Sterilising and Reusable Medical Device Reprocessing State Coordinator (Part Time: Monday/Friday)
Infection Control Service | Communicable Disease Control Branch
Health Regulation & Protection
Department for Health and Wellbeing | Government of South Australia
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Good morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
JoeINFECTION CONTROL REVIEW PTY LTD
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Good Afternoon,
My understanding is that for traceability records for sterilising must be kept for 10 yrs.Cheers
Kerrin Maher RN BN
Nurse Unit Manager | Central Sterilising Department
QEll Jubilee Hospital | Metro South Health
Kessels Road QLD 4108
t. 07 31826151
e. kerrin.maher@health.qld.gov.auGood morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
JoeINFECTION CONTROL REVIEW PTY LTD
Joe-Anne Bendall Consulting
ABN 98630512284Joe.bendall@bigpond.com
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Hi Joe-Anne 🙂
In NSW, a new version of the General Retention and Disposal Authority: GDA17 was issued this year.
It … covers records documenting the function of the provision of health care to patients and clients of New South Wales public offices.
You can scroll down the page that opens on this link: https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/rules/gdas/gda17
and on the left-hide side in Downloads – you can download a pdf of the new document ‘with justifications for the amendments’.For the past few years the GDA17 has required that sterilisation records be retained for 15 years, and that still applies in the revised document:
1.17.0 Sterilisation of equipment
The sterilisation of instruments, items and equipment used in surgical and medical procedures. 1.17.1
PATIENT/CLIENT TREATMENT AND CARE- Sterilisation of equipment
Records relating to the sterilisation of surgical instruments and equipment, e.g. log books, registers.
Retain minimum of 15 years after action completed, then destroy
Justification/Remarks: Confirms 2004 disposal action. Sterilisation registers record details of item sterilised as well as details of the temperatures, times, gas mix etc. This information may be vital in responding to legal inquiries or litigation about patient care. 15 years equates to the retention of patient records in Group A Hospitals and meets (and exceeds by 3 years) the statute of limitations for personal injury claims.
Best Regards,
MarilynMarilyn Harris
CNC Infection Prevention & Control | Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services, SLHD
Sydney Dental Hospital, 2 Chalmers Street, SURRY HILLS 2010
Tel 02 9293 3276 | Fax 02 9293 3488 | marilyn.harris@health.nsw.gov.auGood morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
JoeINFECTION CONTROL REVIEW PTY LTD
Joe-Anne Bendall Consulting
ABN 98630512284Joe.bendall@bigpond.com
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Hi
Have you checked with your District Health Information officer in your hospital or Local Health District. They should have the information.Fefe Lawson
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Good morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
JoeINFECTION CONTROL REVIEW PTY LTD
Joe-Anne Bendall Consulting
ABN 98630512284Joe.bendall@bigpond.com
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Hi all
In Victoria – PROS 11/06 Retention and disposal authority for patient information records Public record office of Victoria 2011 page 49.7.1.1 Sterilization records that identify individual patients – Held by agency 15 years.
It is dated 2011 and do not have access to confirm the currency of the document – but this shows where to lookRegards,
Lesley Lewis
Regional Infection Control Consultant | Hume Region Infection Control Resource and Consulting Service
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Hi all,
I must admit, I have been meaning to look this up as well. I was lead to understand that it was different for records that pertain to children, in Queensland.
For a child or surgery involving a child the record needed to be kept for 5 or 7 years after they had turned 21 years of age. Considering the school dental program, this is mind boggling!
This was information I received when I was doing my Certificate III in Sterilisation. If anyone has any further clarification, it would be appreciated as well.
Kind regards
Mandy Davidson
RN; GCert Inf Pre & Cont; MPHTM; Cert III Sterilisation; Cert IV TAE; Immunisation cred; CICP-A
Clinical Nurse Consultant – 4187 Implementation project
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As a matter of interest I looked up Queensland retention records as it has been updated. Sterilising services has been omitted and now comes under patient records. Interestingly it states 15years from the last occasion of service!!!!! How do you determine the last occasion of service. Luckily most of our are now recorded electronically so not really an issue.
Cheers KerrinKerrin Maher RN BN
Nurse Unit Manager | Central Sterilising Department
QEll Jubilee Hospital | Metro South Health
Kessels Road QLD 4108
t. 07 31826151
e. kerrin.maher@health.qld.gov.auAfternoon Joe,
When I first came on to manage a CSSD in SA government hospital around 2010, I made similar enquiries to our State Records department. This was in part due to a towering pile of physical records in the sub-sub-basement of the building, going back many years and of dubious completion. The requirement in AS4187:2003 at the time was that sterilisation records should be “controlled and retrievable” and I had come upon a situation which was neither.
The General Disposal Schedule for government health records made no reference to sterilisation and reprocessing, so I worked with a couple of officers in State Records to add something into the next version. AS4187 had already specified the list of documents which shall be kept in the running of a reprocessing facility, so we decided that the entry should read “…as required by Standards” or similar. That way, regulatory changes to the required documentation would just carry over.
As for the retention period, the advice of State Records was that of a 15 year period.
Section 3.8.2 of the GDS28 was the final product.
We then had a wonderful time cataloguing, re-boxing and sending all of the records off for storage. Luckily the hospital where I am involved now has a fully electronic tracking system, so the volume of physical records is not only greatly reduced but we can make more of them electronic themselves.
Regards,
Andrew Ellis
Sterilising and Reusable Medical Device Reprocessing State Coordinator (Part Time: Monday/Friday)
Infection Control Service | Communicable Disease Control Branch
Health Regulation & Protection
Department for Health and Wellbeing | Government of South Australia
Level 3 | Citi Centre | 11 Hindmarsh Square | Adelaide SA 5000
HCW infection prevention: http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/infectionprevention
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Good morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
JoeINFECTION CONTROL REVIEW PTY LTD
Joe-Anne Bendall Consulting
ABN 98630512284Joe.bendall@bigpond.com
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It also has implications for all caesarean procedures.
Cheers,
Deb(Make Prevention Your Intention)
IMPS – Redcliffe
P: (07) 3883 7300
debra_lee@health.qld.gov.auHi all,
I must admit, I have been meaning to look this up as well. I was lead to understand that it was different for records that pertain to children, in Queensland.
For a child or surgery involving a child the record needed to be kept for 5 or 7 years after they had turned 21 years of age. Considering the school dental program, this is mind boggling!
This was information I received when I was doing my Certificate III in Sterilisation. If anyone has any further clarification, it would be appreciated as well.
Kind regards
Mandy Davidson
RN; GCert Inf Pre & Cont; MPHTM; Cert III Sterilisation; Cert IV TAE; Immunisation cred; CICP-A
Clinical Nurse Consultant – 4187 Implementation project
Infection Prevention & Control[cid:image001.png@01D3A192.E1513890]
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07 4433 1873 | 0402 987 432
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Mandy.Davidson@health.qld.gov.au
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http://www.health.qld.gov.au/townsvilleTownsville Hospital and Health Service
100 Angus Smith Drive, Douglas, QLD 4814
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Townsville Hospital and Health Service acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, and pays respect to Elders past, present and future.Hi,
As a matter of interest I looked up Queensland retention records as it has been updated. Sterilising services has been omitted and now comes under patient records. Interestingly it states 15years from the last occasion of service!!!!! How do you determine the last occasion of service. Luckily most of our are now recorded electronically so not really an issue.
Cheers KerrinKerrin Maher RN BN
Nurse Unit Manager | Central Sterilising Department
QEll Jubilee Hospital | Metro South Health
Kessels Road QLD 4108
t. 07 31826151
e. kerrin.maher@health.qld.gov.auAfternoon Joe,
When I first came on to manage a CSSD in SA government hospital around 2010, I made similar enquiries to our State Records department. This was in part due to a towering pile of physical records in the sub-sub-basement of the building, going back many years and of dubious completion. The requirement in AS4187:2003 at the time was that sterilisation records should be “controlled and retrievable” and I had come upon a situation which was neither.
The General Disposal Schedule for government health records made no reference to sterilisation and reprocessing, so I worked with a couple of officers in State Records to add something into the next version. AS4187 had already specified the list of documents which shall be kept in the running of a reprocessing facility, so we decided that the entry should read “…as required by Standards” or similar. That way, regulatory changes to the required documentation would just carry over.
As for the retention period, the advice of State Records was that of a 15 year period.
Section 3.8.2 of the GDS28 was the final product.
We then had a wonderful time cataloguing, re-boxing and sending all of the records off for storage. Luckily the hospital where I am involved now has a fully electronic tracking system, so the volume of physical records is not only greatly reduced but we can make more of them electronic themselves.
Regards,
Andrew Ellis
Sterilising and Reusable Medical Device Reprocessing State Coordinator (Part Time: Monday/Friday)
Infection Control Service | Communicable Disease Control Branch
Health Regulation & Protection
Department for Health and Wellbeing | Government of South Australia
Level 3 | Citi Centre | 11 Hindmarsh Square | Adelaide SA 5000
HCW infection prevention: http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/infectionprevention
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Good morning everyone
I have discussed the retention of records in sterilising departments with several people and I get different answers!
I have checked NSW Records and their retention rules but they are not specific for sterilisation departments. They make blanket statements eg Quality Assurance (7 years), Accreditation (10years), Significant Investigations (State Archive).
Does anyone have any more definitive information? Will it be different in each State/Territory?
Thank you
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I have been having the discussion regarding this thread today with our Health Information team who are responsible for ensuring we comply with standards . We currently keep all our sterilisation logs for 7 years. We still have a manual system with instrument tray labels (containing sterilisation date, load number) being placed in the patients medical record when used. These records are discarded 7 years if an adult. Seeing these records are patient identified, do they need to be kept for 15 years not 7?
Heidi Gettons
Infection Control
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