Source: BBC News, 1st October 2020, Travel Tests UK Stevenage Partner-Clinic (Medix Pharmacy)
COVID-19 PCR TESTING Flying and Returning to Work
Surge in COVID-19 Testing : A surge in demand for coronavirus tests has
led to local shortages, with many people reporting problems securing online bookings and being directed to test sites hundreds of miles from home. Source: BBC News, 16th September 2020 We find out a bit more as to why Health Practitioners, such as Daniel Cheung who recently featured on the BBC News and his in-house clinic and online store, www.traveltests.co.uk has seen increased demand for COVID-19 testing. Why have people come to your clinic or website for private COVID-19 testing? Because the demand is surging for testing as people are gradually returning to work or flying for delayed holidays, which has meant laboratories have seen a surge in testing and tight turnaround times in providing results, especially as some countries require tests to be taken 72 hours from when they are flying. The test kit has to make it back to the lab (many of which are backlogged), wait for the results, and then Fit-to-Fly Certificates have to be issued and signed off with the Lab Results. We have heard of horror stories, where people haven’t been able to make their flights for holidays or miss work commitments due to a delay in testing, which thankfully we haven’t experienced yet (touch wood). Why we have seen a surge in demand is we can proudly say we have one of the highest rates of providing results to our customers/patients.
We have opened our clinic over the weekend to meet this demand, and our laboratory partner work 24/7. We also have a dedicated account manager on top of all our open samples working ‘around the sun’ and work closely with the laboratory to follow up on queries on the hour, every hour! Also, our pricing at www.traveltests.co.uk for our Fit-to-Fly Tests include the certificate, and we’ve listened to our customers who have said others sell the certificate on top of the test.
Do you deal with many ‘Return to Work’ testing scenarios? Yes, we have dealt with small companies who are sending a 8-person creative and camera crew team to the Le Mans Race event to a corporate 250 Person Test Site Set-up, whereby we dispatched an onsite Test Team working closely with Corporate Human Resources (HR), Business Continuity Planning (BCP) to plan the DriveThru Test Site set-up, confirm who would be tested, and plan time slots for each person.
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We did this on less than 24 hours’ notice, and we’re satisfied knowing the employer really cares about their staff and got everyone tested before they were allowed to return to site. We’re able to offer tailored solutions and corporate pricing for this service, which can be obtained by contacting support@traveltests.co.uk
You also offer Home-Based test kits; how does that work? Some people prefer to self-swab as they have COVID-19 symptoms, convenience, or too far a distance to attend on-site testing. As we have an exceptionally good relationship with our laboratory partners, we seldom need to refer to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as results are usually returned in a timely manner. We also obtain details of when Home-Based Tests Kits were self-returned to our partner-laboratory so we can include them on our hourly follow ups with the lab.