Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dargavel View Post
What is “likely” is that multiple parties will be awarded contracts to provide testing with variances in the devolved nations and within individual nations based on many different criteria.
The Roche product is the one that has been approved and that's the one we will use whether purchased UK wide or individually by each of the 4 countries.

The issue is how to run the tests. Each needs an individual iV sample which will have to be taken by a doctor, nurse or phlebotomist. That'll take time as I imagine most will be done at GP surgeries. Then the sample has to go to a lab, either NHS, private or a mix. Finally the results have to be posted.