For more information on how to get a test, visit www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/coronavirus/bookarapidtest/. Gareth Williams, Cabinet Member for Communities and Public Health at Buckinghamshire Council said: “Lateral flow testing is an easy and practical way to help keep our frontline workers and those they come into contact with safe. It is essential that we do everything in our power to break the chain of transmission. It’s important to remember that even with a negative test result you will still need to take the same safety measures – hands, face, space as you may pick up the virus after leaving the test site.”
What are the potential NHS reforms in England?
Then Prime Minister David Cameron and health secretary Andrew Lansley in 2012 (Mark Richards/PA)
A proposed extensive shake-up of the NHS in England could place more power in the hands of politicians and reduce the role of the private sector in the health service.
A leaked document suggests that forthcoming major reforms, scheduled for introduction next year, could undo large parts of legislation brought in under the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition in 2012.
Andrew Lansley’s reforms under the coalition Government proved controversial (Steve Parsons/PA)
– What are the changes?
The specialist health news website Health Policy Insight, which first obtained the leaked plans, said the draft White Paper “unambiguously puts the Secretary of State for Health back in charge, in a massive political land-grab”.
New UK Government Covid testing site opens in Glasgow Pollok
The UK Government has today, Friday 5 February, opened a new walk-through coronavirus testing centre at Pollok Community Centre in Glasgow (G53 5DP)
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5 February 2021
The UK Government has today, Friday 5 February, opened a new walk-through coronavirus testing centre at Pollok Community Centre in Glasgow (G53 5DP).
The test centre is part of the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history. In Scotland, this comprises of seven drive-through sites, 28 walk-through sites, 35 mobile units, plus the Glasgow Lighthouse Lab which is working round the clock to process samples.
In Scotland, the UK Government is providing all COVID testing and test processing outside of the NHS. Around two thirds of all daily tests are provided by the UK Government, in support of Scotland’s health services.