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The DOH document has extensive coverage of coding in the health service. The application to surgical instruments is only a very small part of the report. We have extracted important parts of the report and shown them in the report summary.
 

Perhaps one of the most important section from the report is the statement ..'Although the GS1 coding system will be the coding of choice for most new applications, there will be occasions when alternatives will be necessary.