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Good work Agent, 'M' will be pleased.

Agree Neutronic. Just one significant sales order will light the touch paper here. So much pent up frustration.

Sorry @wyn couldn't resist that one :-)

"Say Gran and Grandad live about 10-15 miles away and you see them once a week with the kids, at £7.50 a test that's £30 a week extra to pay. or £1,500 a year."

@wyn. You never know, they might pay you £1,500 a year to stay away.

Wonder where all this leaves Porton Down?...disbanded?
Presumably, the winning bidder of the Laboratory Test Validation Services tender will be doing the new evaluations.

@Icecool. Where are you seeing this 'Step 4:' stuff etc?
Do you have a document link?
Cheers

Actually, the most sensible approach here is to contact our local MP's and ask them to table an amendment. This is proposed govt legislation, so amendments can be made in Parliament. I suggest the best target for an amendment would be the removal (or modification) of the following clause, on the basis of non-level playing field, or such like. I'm going to put something together over the weekend. Democracy begins at home, and all that.

"Tests currently supplied to the NHS under DHSC procurement will be exempted in recognition of prior equivalent assessment."

Yes, Will, I said that without a tremendous amount of conviction :-)
But, if there was ever a case that the Good Law Project should take up, this is it.
I mean, they take up the ABDX case, involving a few million quid expenditure.
We're talking a few billion in this case.

[Sample type - Desired - Method not requiring a swab (e.g. saliva, sputum, stool, breath sample)]

Can you imagine AS reading this, having changed direction 8 months ago, presumably at the governments behest.
He'll be going mental! Probably turn up at Downing Street one day with a sawn off shotgun tucked under his lab coat.
Yes, fukc this govt, let's get 'em out in Europe and totally embarrass this bunch of lying shysters.

"Innova back door by government"
[Tests currently supplied to the NHS under DHSC procurement will be exempted in recognition of prior equivalent assessment.]

There has to be grounds for legal challenge here.
There has been no equivalent assessment.
Innova has not been validated against AN sampling method.
Innova IFU states the test is suitable for symptomatic only.
The 'real world' sensitivity is very poor.

This is absolutely appalling. We need to organise a class action here urgently.

Sorry, Choo-Choo, Man City fan here and enjoying seeing our star man showing excellent form.
Feeling a bit spoilt this tournament, we seem to have a player(s) in nearly every match.
Right on cue, he scores a 100% accurate goal :-)

It's the De Bruyne test, 100% accurate.

Can you repeat that please Ndn, I missed it the first 10 times.

I was wondering why I've been having this feeling of nostalgia for Morecambe and Wise today. Thanks Vegas, just realised where that was coming from.

The biggest risk to the SP short term was a carte blanche renewal of the Innova EUA. That risk just got removed.
I think this news will be properly digested overnight and we'll see FOMO Mk II tomorrow.

@wyn - I don't see a minimum of a 10 week further delay as "good news"
Aren't you forgetting about the 27 EU countries we're targeting?
It's no wonder you get some people's backs up on here, when you come out with lines like that.
Incidentally, were you expecting the govt to bin 10's (if not 100's) of millions of Innova tests overnight?

Beggars belief that people would sell on this news.
The difference between a 2 months extension and a 6 months extension is hugely significant in a very positive way.
Did people think that Innova would be ditched overnight and an RTC magic LFT tree would suddenly appear?
I suspect people 'in the know' saw this as a positive, hence the simultaneous rise of AVCT, ODX, ABDX just prior to release.
Well, at least the Abby increase held...for now.

@AgentB
This is the document issued to NHS staff which describes the change in IFU.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/12/C0964-lft-in-primary-care-faqs-v2-jan-2021.pdf

See:
Q21. Why is the testing method different from that described in the manufacturer’s original instructions for use?

We are recommending the swab is used and the sample taken in a different way to the instructions for use, with more rotation of the swab at a lower level of penetration, to enable easier self-administration of the test. This is based on advice from experts. The manufacturer has been informed of the planned use of the tests for self-administered asymptomatic staff testing within the NHS."

There's been no review DTW, that's just re-assuring bullsh*t to be fed to the public and media.
A two months extension is a pittance in the current scheme of things.

Really, really chuffed about this very limited extension.
The MHRA have obviously said to govt "Ok, you can have a couple of months to get rid of the crap, but that's as far as we'll go"
Brilliant news.