The Leading British Healthcare and testing company Salutaris people and partnered group test assurance group Ltd (TAG) have unveiled a new Covid-19 testing centre in Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
The Facility described as ‘state-of-the-art’ is in partnership with Source BioScience, an international provider of laboratory services, and has been designed to perform 500 tests per day, which could be escalated to 1000 tests if required.
This is welcomed news for travellers passing through the airport as a Rapid Fit to Fly testing service with a tournarond time of 3 hours is available alongside a standard 24 hour Fit to Fly testing service. Samples are collected on site and tested at Source BioScience’s main laboratory in Nottingham with enables Day 2, Day 8, Test to Release and stand PRC Covid-19 testing for customers.
At the unveiling, The Board Director of Test Assurance Group, Cliff Kirby said:
“We are pleased to be working in partnership with Source BioScience to provide brand new state of the art facilities on site at Liverpool John Lennon Airport and to offer our customers the best-in-class when it comes to rapid PCR testing services.
For airline passengers using Liverpool John Lennon airport, or any other UK airport for that matter, they can book a test with confidence, knowing their COVID test will be administered by trained healthcare staff and then processed on site within our laboratory, with results back in 3 hours or 24 hours depending on the service chosen. We offer a seamless and simple user journey experience for the customer, making this part of the travel process as simple and painless as possible from a trusted healthcare provider.
More importantly with our lab facilities on site this eradicates test results going missing in the postal system and the huge amount of ‘Unclear’ test results that have originated from self-administered test kits provided by major airlines and travel operators as part of their testing regimes. This has caused a huge amount of disruption with passengers paying twice for testing kits and a huge amount of disruption to air travel and holiday plans. ‘Unclears’ and ‘lost test results’ continue to pose a major issue to airline passengers.”
Commenting on the new facilities at Liverpool John Lennon airport, Commercial Director Lucy O’Shaughnessy, said;
“We are delighted to be the first airport in the UK to have such a unique facility and service. Liverpool John Lennon Airport can now provide our valued airline passengers with a state-of-the-art COVID testing facility on site here at the airport as we start to resume our flight schedules and have more passengers flying again. The airport continually strives to offer the best possible service for our customers at all times. Working in partnership with Test Assurance Group (TAG) / Salutaris People and Source BioScience enables us to offer a convenient and efficient PCR testing service operated by trusted healthcare providers.”
Nick Bills Healthcare Director for Source BioScience said;
“Source BioScience have worked together with EMS Mobile Healthcare to design and build a state-of-the-art mobile COVID testing laboratory for Salutaris People at Liverpool Airport. This laboratory will allow Salutaris People to offer the best-in-class testing services to airline passengers flying from Liverpool John Lennon airport. Source BioScience is a leading international provider of laboratory services to clients in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, clinical, life science research and biopharma industries and our focus is on improving patient diagnosis, management and care.”
For more information on Salutaris People and to book a test, visit: www.salutarispeople.com
For more information on Test Assurance Group and book a test visit: www.testassurancegroup.com/bookatest
For more information on Salutaris airport testing,
visit: www.salutarispeople.com/airport-testing/
