Source Bioscience UK Ltd offer NHS COVID-19 testing

Source BioScience UK Ltd, an international provider of integrated laboratory services and products based in Nottingham, has been selected as a laboratory service provider of COVID-19 testing for the NHS. 

Source BioScience is working to support the Government and the NHS as part of the national testing drive to reach 200,000 tests a day.

The Government has an agreement in place with Source BioScience allowing them to support the NHS by providing a PCR based COVID-19 testing service for patients and key workers. UKAS has recommended Source BioScience’s scope of accreditation to be extended to include COVID-19 testing services.

The companies dedicated team and on-site equipment allow the NHS to return up to 5,000 samples to Source BioScience for testing per day.

Chief Operating Officer of Source BioScience, said:  “Scaling up testing has been an exceptional challenge and staff are working 24/7 to deliver an expanding number of tests. Since the beginning of May, we have doubled our capacity to around 1,000 tests a day and in the coming weeks, we hope to be able to process up to 5,000 tests a day. What we have achieved in five weeks would normally take between six months to a year.”

For more information regarding NHS COVID-19 testing services please contact us on (0)115 973 9012 or email sales@sourcebioscience.com.