Global healthcare event specialists, Ashfield Meetings & Events (part of UDG Healthcare plc), and sister company Ashfield Patient Solutions, have launched a joint effort to offer rapid Covid-19 screening at face-to-face events. EventSafe – as the service will be called – will be available at events in Europe starting in January 2021. The group says the news is likely to be welcomed by many of the healthcare businesses that currently partner with Ashfield. “Virtual meetings have obviously become the norm over the past nine months, and while many of our global clients have partnered with us to move beyond the Zoom call to much more audience-engaging broadcast-quality events, most are clearly missing that human connection element that only face-to-face can bring,” says Gavin Houston, COO for Ashfield Meetings & Events. “EventSafe is an incredibly exciting development for our industry and it’s set to be invaluable to our clients as they plan their programmes for 2021.”