RE: Elephant in the room23 Sep 2020 13:38
"For 'professional use' means by a registered healthcare professional, where it falls within their sphere of competence. That would include doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists - it would not include those working in care homes unless they are also a registered healthcare professional".
Incorrect. All care homes must and will be registered. The owners of these care homes can then request tests on behalf of their staff, regardless of whether their staff are registered or not.
"As I understand it, all the UK-RTC manufacturing partners are currently manufacturing to enable them to deal with any government order and the professional use pre-orders currently being gathered on behalf of the consortium by CIGA".
Incorrect. Abingdon Health are the only ones at this present moment manufacturing the ABC-19 test. If they cannot meet demands, then ODX will be called in to help out. You can email Colin for confirmation.
"It's not quite that straightforward. Hospitals (in England) have been told that they should not ordering directly but via NHS supply routes... it's tied in with a somewhat bizarre instruction from DHSC about them not testing staff and patients (I know - bonkers!) GPs have been told something similar".
Thanks again for repeating what I stated, Hospitals can order these tests through whichever supply chains they normally use.
"The big chains (Boots, Superdrug, etc) will be offering professional POC tests alongside their other testing/vaccination services. They've been asked to hold off rolling it out at the moment".
Absolutely incorrect. Pharmacy staff fall under key Health workers so are eligible for the test as well. They are not available to members of the public. This is clearly stated on Abingdon Health website. These Pharmacies have not received any orders asking them to hold off selling to the public. There are no tests available to the public as of yet.