RE: National Pathology Exchange7 Apr 2021 14:03
This article also highlights the work the National Pathology Exchange are currently undertaking: -
NPEx is a key enabler for the government’s drive to provide COVID-19 testing for frontline NHS workers. The NPEx team are working alongside Amazon, Deloitte, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Boots, Royal Mail, Randox, the Wellcome Trust and top UK universities to provide an integrated solution for frontline and key-worker testing home and drive-through testing. NPEx manages the clinical reporting of these tests by securely and accurately tracking their arrival at the laboratory, linking them into the NPEx central record, and ensuring results can flow onto the reporting bodies quickly. When the results have been generated, they are sent through NPEx to the NHS Business Services Authority who text results to frontline workers. This programme of work has the potential to save the UK £9.4 million per day in unnecessary sick pay for the estimated 100,000 people who are self- isolating with symptoms who are negative for COVID-19.
www.npex.nhs.uk/news/200409