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NICE Guidelines Update: Respiratory Infections

Why is this guideline needed? Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI’s) presented via NHS 111 service or came into primary care for assessment. More serious cases self-presented to A&E, sometimes arriving by ambulance.  Post-COVID, the number of ARI’s and people presenting with symptoms has increased, putting pressure across healthcare settings. ARI Hubs and Virtual Wards have…
Dawn
November 3, 2023
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REMINDER: Near Patient Testing Working Party – 25 October 2023 (IN PERSON)

    The NPT working party meeting will be held on Wednesday 25th October at 10.30am at the Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN. This will be a panel and audience discussion on “The Future of Point of Care Diagnostics in Community Pharmacy”. The event will be chaired by Trevor Gore and our panellists include Joanna…
Natalie Creaney
September 22, 2023
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NHS England and NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre; Invitation to their Demand Signalling Event. 3 October 2023

NHS England’s and NIHR Leeds BRC’s flagship in-person event, Moving Forward in Infection Diagnostics: defining and communicating clinical need is taking place on Tuesday the 3rd October 2023 from 9.30am-4.30pm at the Leeds Nexus.    BIVDA are pleased to be sponsoring this event which will bring together a broad range of expertise from across patient groups, community, primary and secondary care…
Ben Kemp
July 28, 2023
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Rethinking the in vitro diagnostic testing model in Europe

Members of the Infectious Disease Working Party and Near Patient Testing Working Party may be interested in this McKinsey-produced report which examines how European health systems used in vitro diagnostic testing in new ways to tackle COVID-19 and how leaders can apply this monumental mobilisation to best use diagnostics as a means of transforming health outcomes in the future. This…
Dawn
July 28, 2023
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Industry update: ARI hubs pilot

BIVDA and ABHI working jointly with NHS England to in using point of care tests in ARI hubs to support the delivery of a pilot which will benefit patients in the long term. Context NHS England is working with the ABHI and BIVDA to deliver a pilot that will use of point of care tests in acute respiratory infections (ARI)…
Natalie Creaney
March 31, 2023
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Point of Care Technologies for use in ambulances

A message from Prof Rick Body, in his role as Director of the Diagnostics and Technology Accelerator (DiTA) in Manchester regarding Point of Care tests for ambulance use – see the link here. What is DiTA? Effectively operating like the MICs but independent of NIHR, to support and catalyse the generation of high quality evidence for new diagnostics and medical…
Ben Kemp
March 24, 2023
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Near Patient Testing Working Party – February 2023

Doris-Ann covered the innovation Service and the signposting for companies for new products and innovations for the NHS. The group were very keen to understand the pathways and BIVDA will be looking at ways to make the process clear and easy to follow for members to access this service. For further information on the Innovation Service, please contact doris-ann@bivda.org.uk. Helen…
Ben Kemp
March 3, 2023
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Near Patient Testing Working Party – call for a Vice Chair

The NPT WP wants to appoint a vice chair to help set the agendas and topics for this member group. It is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future in POC and near patient testing and the activity in the NHS is substantial with dealing with the backlog, if you are interested in hearing more about this position, please…
Ben Kemp
February 10, 2023
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