T4tomo
Legendary Member
its an email & on screen confirmation with an alphanumeric code on it. you can write them down or print it off. no phone dumb or smart needed
Lateral flow tests - kits - anyone managed to get any?
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winjim
Smash the cistern
Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today. Tomorrow will be tomorrow. It's one per day, not one per 24hr period.
OP
OP
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Well I got a collection code (think I said upthread) - trotted along for the third time in 3 days - still none.
I was offered some special trial kit of some sort but it carried with it some sort of obligation to do what over what period how often I don't know. They couldn't tell me. So I would have been opening a packet with god knows what requirements in it so I had to pass and leave it for some other guinea pig.
Zappped across london to a pharmacy that the NHS web site said was doing walk-in tests with less than a 15 minute wait.
It was closed with this note in the door:
Across london again to a pharmacy that the NHS web site told me was doing walk in tests with under a 15 minute wait.
No - not doing any tests as had nothing to do them with.
No take-home tests either for folk to do it themselves.
A guy who told me he was an NHS worker couldn't get one.
The NHS website is a fiction on this I am afraid - I won't be doing any more wild goose chases.
Meanwhile I understand that the new variant is rampant in London.
I was offered some special trial kit of some sort but it carried with it some sort of obligation to do what over what period how often I don't know. They couldn't tell me. So I would have been opening a packet with god knows what requirements in it so I had to pass and leave it for some other guinea pig.
Zappped across london to a pharmacy that the NHS web site said was doing walk-in tests with less than a 15 minute wait.
It was closed with this note in the door:
Across london again to a pharmacy that the NHS web site told me was doing walk in tests with under a 15 minute wait.
No - not doing any tests as had nothing to do them with.
No take-home tests either for folk to do it themselves.
A guy who told me he was an NHS worker couldn't get one.
The NHS website is a fiction on this I am afraid - I won't be doing any more wild goose chases.
Meanwhile I understand that the new variant is rampant in London.
OP
OP
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- London
that's what the chap said - surprised me.
winjim
Smash the cistern
We did get issued with a big box each early in the year as part of an asymptomatic monitoring study, but since the summer we've been expected to order them online.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Not here we don't.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
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- The Frozen North (of England)
Brilliant, thanks for that. Might order another box that way and go pick it up on Saturday. Best have 10 spare 'in stock' just in case. I do occasionally need to be in contact with people ... LOL!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Ordered another 7 and that should see me through to new year.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Ordered online about 9.00pm yesterday. Arrived 1.00pm today. There was one day when online stocks ran out but it seems to be back to normal.
This is our fifth delivery and I feel trying to get some from a pharmacy is a waste of my time but more importantly theirs as well.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
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- On the edge of reality
They are currently available online. Just ordered a box each for me and box for Mrs B.
OP
OP
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- London
sorry paul:
This is from the NHS web page:
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How to get rapid tests
Pick up tests from a pharmacy
Picking up tests from a pharmacy is the quickest way to get a rapid test for most people.
If you give the pharmacy a 'collect code' when you pick up the tests, it helps the NHS match your details to the tests. Find out about collect codes and how to get a collect code on GOV.UK
Find a pharmacy near you where you can collect rapid tests
Order tests to do at home
Information:
Only order online if you cannot get a test through other methods. This frees up home delivery for those who need it most.
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See last line in particular.
(all bolds are the NHS's, not mine)
By trotting along to my local pharmacy (3 times without success) and then two more visits across town it was precisely my intent to help myself and avoid troubling folk/the system and not jumping in front of anyone.
Before setting off for both of those tests I also checked online and was told that there was low demand/a very short wait - ie I would not only not put myself out too much (other than zig-zagging around south London) and neither would I be pushing more needy folk out of the way.
I cannot claim to be someone who "needs it most", I am in decent health, and am mobile.
For walking to the pharmacy or anywhere else.
I have always tried to not overburden the NHS, follow rules/guidance.
It does indeed however appear to have been a total waste of my time.
Maybe some on here don't follow the above advice - I don't know - don't know their circumstances.
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winjim
Smash the cistern
I don't really know what front line means. An acute trust.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
We ordered a box of seven tests from the government website late yesterday and picked them up from a local pharmacy today.
Is there supposed to be a lavatory paper-style panic?
Is there supposed to be a lavatory paper-style panic?
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
No, it's more of a delivery issue rather than a supply issue. But given the requirement for daily LFTs for contacts, I think many people are merely planning ahead in the expectation of needing rather more than the 'one pack every 3 weeks or so' that the twice-weekly routine testing requires.
