Just over a week ago, you could have turned up at a Government test site without an appointment....Then they changed it and you must register and get a QR code to get the test
What’s a QR Code?There are a number of people over a certain age that don't know what a QR code is.
I would say it's a nailed on certainty.......someone from Stockport or Darlington will be making the journey.And what's the betting no one in Blackpool will be able to get a booking there ?
Is this a Rorschach test?I would say it's a nailed on certainty.......someone from Stockport or Darlington will be making the journey.
But if anyone wants to try.....at least you know where to ask for....and this is what you will need (but not this one)
View attachment 2923 this is just an example
I think I heard somewhere that a lot of the people who were processing the tests were academics who’d gone back to University.Dido or whatever her name is now trying to justify the under-utilised testing centres by saying they can't process the ones they have safely and so are having to restrict testing
Surely she can see the flaw - capacity only works if you can process the tests you purport to be able to accommodate
Little tip.....all appointments are relesed on the day on an hour to hour basis.......and there is an active mobile site in Bispham tomorrow from 10.30am
And what's the betting no one in Blackpool will be able to get a booking there ?
That’s the same one my daughter has been invited toI was sent a letter by the NHS last week to volunteer to be part of an antibody testing research study by Imperial College in London and Ipsos / Mori. Got the testing package (finger prick blood test) a couple of days ago and did it last night. Result was available within 15 minutes. Sent the result, a photo of the test kit and completed a questionnaire all online. It will give them a much better understanding of Covid and its population dynamics.
I tested negative for antibodies, but expected that because I have been careful because by wife has asthma.
If you get invited to be part of these studies I would encourage you to participate. We all need to fight this pandemic together
I heard a figure yesterday that despite the headline figures only 62000 people were tested in the previous 24 hours.
It was brought up in todays science and technology committee which you can view hereInteresting, where did that come from?
It was brought up in todays science and technology committee which you can view here
Absolutely. I think that at 8 o‘clock every Thursday Night we should all stand out side and clap and rattle pans in celebration of their phenomenal success. You know a bit like they do things in North Korea or Russia or ChinaThe Leader of the House of Commons has criticised people for "carping" about the problems with getting COVID tests.
He apparently told MPs that people should instead celebrate the "phenomenal success" of increasing test capacity.
Now there is a man of the people!
It was bloody obvious that if you want to test the numbers these facilities are geared up for you have to be able to process the tests you’ve developed capacity for
Phew!!There is some good news though. Eton College got all their pupils tested before they went back to school.
Glad to see you remember your place, young man.Phew!!
At least the next generation of natural leaders is safe.
What a relief!!
With respect, I think that's just plain wrong.
The testing centres are never going to be operated at full capacity across the country because the demand is likely to vary wildly by region depending upon local conditions and outbreaks, so while the testing stations in some areas are stretched at the moment in other parts of the country there is lots of spare capacity that isn't being utilised.
Thus, if you match your lab capacity to your test station capacity you will end up with maybe as much as 50% of your lab capacity unused.
And because lab capacity is the real limiting factor in scaling up testing it should be obvious that it makes far more sense to have excess and unused station capacity than it does to have excess and unused lab capacity.
Well all I keep hearing ad nauseam from the Gov't is that we are leading the world in our test capacity which is seemingly advanced on the premises of calculations based on test stations working at or close to capacity
Daily tests processed (pillars 1 & 2) | 223,143 |
Lab capacity (pillars 1 & 2) | 242,911 |
Just scanned the Times that has this as it's headline story
Government laboratories that are processing coronavirus tests use cumbersome techniques, are running out of staff and have failed to set up automatic processes before a second wave, The Times has been told.
A scientist who has toured the facilities said he was appalled as it became clear that the labs were increasingly struggling to cope with demand.
On Question Time Fiona Bruce quoted the latest govt statistics confirmed 81,000 completed tests against a claimed capacity of 250,000 - so less than a third
Could be...married to a Tory MP, John Penrose. I'm sure it was a fair and open competition when she was selected as being ideal to head up the replacement to Public Health England, based on her excellent work in setting up the world beating track and trace system we have now.Is this this the same Dido Harding who was chief executive of TalkTalk when it was fined £400,000 for "security failings" which led to 157,000 customers' personal data being stolen?
Could be...married to a Tory MP, John Penrose. I'm sure it was a fair and open competition when she was selected as being ideal to head up the replacement to Public Health England, based on her excellent work in setting up the world beating track and trace system we have now.
In the past, she has spoken out on female representation on company boards. Doesn't agree with it, also there's too much maternity leave.
Whenever there’s a crisis there’s an opportunityAnd shes outsourcing the contracts to private companies for the two new lighthouse labs that are opening. £££££££££££
Whenever there’s a crisis there’s an opportunity
Contract worth £200m to implement Brexit checks on goods in the Irish Sea just awarded to a consortium headed by ...... Fujitsu
But who else has their snouts in a trough full of taxpayer money?
I think we should be told. And I expect we shall be.
Having looked further it seems to have come from the Sunday Times citing a leaked report, but I can't find any further information on it so it's impossible to test how accurate the claim is.