IDSc

Name

IDSc

Legal name

The Institute of Decontamination Sciences

Website

https://idsc-uk.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Healthcare Association

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy) (EDAAALAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Continuing Education (CE/CPD) & Provider Accreditation Bodies (EDADACAF)

Keywords

• Medical device reprocessing
• Decontamination sciences
• Professional membership
• Infection prevention training
• Sterile services education

Headquarters

HQ city

Northampton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Subscriptions: IDSc generates revenue through annual membership fees from healthcare professionals working in medical device decontamination and reprocessing. Membership provides access to the Annual Conference, Decontamination Services Forum, branch meetings, networking events, publications, and seminars.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

IDSc is a UK professional membership body that provides continuing education, training, publications, networking events, and an annual conference for healthcare professionals working in medical device decontamination and reprocessing. It also runs research and development programs and monitors professional standards across eight regional branches covering Scotland, Wales & West, Northern Ireland, North West, Yorkshire & Trent, Midlands, East Anglia, and Central & Southern England.

Product overview

IDSc is the UK's largest professional medical device reprocessing body offering a unified portfolio of membership services focused on decontamination sciences. The core offerings include professional membership (providing access to conferences, forums, branch meetings, networking events, and publications), IDSc Education (training and certification programs), Research (promoting R&D in decontamination sciences), Publications (journals and industry publications), and News & Events (industry updates and events). These services work together to support the growth and evolution of decontamination sciences, monitor and maintain professional standards, and serve the medical profession's technical and operational needs in medical device decontamination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IDSc Membership
• IDSc Education
• IDSc Research Research program that actively promotes continual research and development in decontamination sciences for the medical device reprocessing community.
• IDSc Publications The Journal and other publications covering developments in decontamination sciences, distributed to members and the wider professional community.
• News & Events Industry news updates, event announcements, and the flagship Annual Conference plus regional branch meetings serving the UK decontamination sciences community.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Infection Prevention Society (IPS): UK professional body for infection prevention and control practitioners. Closely adjacent to IDSc because decontamination sciences sit within the broader infection prevention mission, sharing NHS-aligned membership, conferences, and journal-based engagement.
• Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM): UK-based professional membership body for healthcare engineering and estate management professionals. Most directly comparable to IDSc as a UK professional association serving a specialized healthcare workforce category through subscriptions, conferences, and CPD.
• Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP): UK membership organization for perioperative practitioners, including those working in sterile services. Operates a similar model of subscriptions, journal, conference, and CPD for a healthcare sub-discipline workforce.
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM): UK membership body for physicists and engineers working in healthcare, including medical equipment and sterilization technology specialists. Comparable to IDSc in serving a specialized healthcare technical workforce with subscriptions, journals, and conferences.
• Healthcare Infection Society (HIS): UK-based learned society and membership body for healthcare infection professionals, publishing a journal and running events. Comparable to IDSc in mission overlap (infection control) and operating model (membership, journal, events).
• Central Sterilising Club (CSC): UK-based specialist club for sterile services and decontamination professionals. Highly comparable to IDSc as a niche membership forum for the same core workforce, though typically smaller and more informal in structure.

Broad incumbents

• Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH): One of the UK's largest public health membership bodies, offering qualifications, CPD, and events across multiple health workforce categories. Comparable to IDSc as a larger professional body with subscription revenue and accredited qualifications in adjacent health disciplines.
• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH): UK professional body awarding chartered status and running CPD programmes for environmental health practitioners. Comparable in structure (subscription membership, qualifications, journal, branches) and adjacent to decontamination in the infection-control domain.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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