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I am with PL on not bothering what is on Bidstats. The government could be the lead developer of an affimer LFT with affimers under licence so will not invite bids as they own the test. AV CT will probably have an agreement to sell surplus production for their own profit under AVCT labelling while being paid for the reagents supplied to the government. This explains the deleted tweet in the 'so very interesting' thread. Use of sovereign terminology acquires more meaning in this scenario.

I think the big government orders from AVCT might be white labelled and that lets AS off the hook re news flow.

Application of pre|CISIONTM - trademarked tech and affimers in diagnostics hanoihank. AVCT are into licencing in a very big way but staff should not let themselves in for being unpaid advisors. Maybe a member of the team could be seconded to a licencee if required.

leewill39; I don't know if popular chemotherapy is now generic but would use of pre|CISIONTM chemistry create a newly patented drug. This would increase demand in my opinion.
Also if AVCT are licensing to numerous pharma I can see a situation where they become like a call centre to deal with snags so a charge for that facility would be essential in my opinion.
You sound informed so directed question/ideas to you but any further input welcome.

It's no good saying that as that is precisely the test the government had high hopes for but is not yet delivered by biopharma. A minister for the rapid testing would have to communicate why there is not and what they are spending money on and why in the field of testing. He would be accountable and available for questioning. There is no reason why expenditure towards facilitating an AVCT LFT should not be discussed openly and any delays explained as noone wants a useless enquiry set up to delve into failure. The effort expended now is what keeps us hopeful as long as we know about it.

I catch your drift there and agree but my point is he needs help and maybe two ministers taking over the delivery of vaccine and LFT/rapid tests would help AS and other private companies come up with the goods. and Matt H have a better handle on his huge portfolio as the Health Minister. One person spending so much taxpayer money needs a bigger team with more individual time for decision taking.

Not sure which of my points you responded to DOH

Understaffed at the cabinet level and at the regulatory level means vaccine prioritizing has switched attention from LFT/testing when both should have had full attention. It must be difficult to have to be briefed on a seperate subject when your mind is full of another one. Large expenditure should be well managed by more people at the top maybe. Perhaps they don't exist. Perhaps they have to rely on a call to AS and others for LFT info.
I can see difficulty in the decision taking area at the moment or at least responsibility for communication.
I think Matt H should have two ministers under him one for vaccine and one for testing.

Likewise, compliments of the season to you and Bigtosh, CHEQUEMATE and anyone invested here. I see there is a 3% yield and suppose it will largely be inflation proof returns for GBG so a safe return in the future. Very good that covid hit Britain has reached a sensible agreement with the EU as the clouds are lifting for us now. I expect Boris will want to hand over the reins now rather than be a punchbag that the offices of public service have become.

open 8am 29/12. Happy Christmas and New Year everyone.

£6.5m payday with options for persons discharging managerial responsibilities reported.

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/CWR/exercise-of-options-pdmr-dealing-70d73mjmwsb4c4q.html
18.6% of those officer's options exercised.
Not complaining, a good effort put in by them.

Surely hospital covid beds/infection figures are a natural measure of the success of vaccine combined with mass test strategy and tweaking will take place as required. BJ is a pragmatist. Nothing works at the moment and the monitoring will continue and statistics are what has been influential to date.

wyndrum-a lot of the overweight including me have criticised AS and if we are still here, which I am but with less exposure, then the last thing we need is salt in the wound. It will be serious if AS does not deliver and happy to try and engage with you on anything where I can add to understanding. I would like the wound to heal though pending a possible reopening if AS does not deliver.

I have had leeches call me when I am doing well and it really throws me. They need to pick your brains to stay ahead of the game.

T&T still seems important (not to me) and I think he says it to placate his colleagues working on it but wasting taxpayers money. No talk of passport or did I miss it earlier.

Nothing else will stop lockdowns and restrictions

The upward trend is exceeding chart expectation at the moment but maybe due to recent global expansion-56% of business in last results, a good figure to watch post brexit.

scaredy-agree with that

Good post scaredy_cat , excuse the spelling, I would add in Al's defence a more than normal intrusion by Government agents interfering with work flow and affecting timely decision taking.

pardariff, forgive me if necessary but the way to join in is click reply not retype the title after clicking post message, that is for new topics.