Lateral flow tests now require QR code.

What is a QR code and how and where do you get one?

I don't know if this is helpful:

faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01394

PS. What about the people who don't have smart phones or don't know how to use them?

Thanks growstuff I'll look at the link. I don't have a smart 'phone and wouldn't know how to use one so rely on Mr. S..

I ordered some online Tuesday via the NHS and they came yesterday

I am useless at technology too Smileless they didn't ask for anything online though they most probably scan them before they send them

I order through this link

I get them from my local pharmacy, on request.

Granmarie have you got some since Monday? Apparently the rules have changed.

Smileless A QR code is one of those black and white squares. The person serving me in Boots gave me a leaflet which had another QR code to get me to the place online. I’ve just done as Jane suggested and ordered them online .I had to supply the same information I did for the code for collecting at the pharmacy.

Thanks JaneJudge and Atqui oh dear I do feel silly, now I've read your explanation, I know what they are Atqui.

My granddaughter picks them up from school, there seems no limit to the amount they can take.

I seem to have acquired quite a stash of the tests as every time I went to the library to collect a set of books for my book group, they insisted on giving me some boxes of tests as well. I think they were getting rid of them as the library are no longer supplying them.

I was aware that the system to get nes tests was changing though and do have the leaflet with the code on for when I need some more. I take two each week when I visit mum in a care home and also before WI meetings.

I’ve just finished my last one, I do a test once a week. Just ordered some online, usually get them from pharmacy, but after reading this…

I always report my result online.

Seems silly, getting them posted out when they can just be collected though.

Wonder how many thousands of unused tests are just languishing in homes or worse, just chucked unused in the bin.

I asked for a box at our pharmacy and was given 2, one extra for my OH which I said I didn't want. Apparently the paperwork couldn't be changed so......does anyone in the Glasgow area need some?

My grandson is off school with positive tests using the regular LFT. He has however received 2 negative PCR tests so far. Has anyone
else experienced this phenomena? He does a daily LFT.

Lft do give false positives sometimes.

When I did a lateral flow test this week it was negative. I then went online to report the result and they said if you don’t use a QR there is a short list of numbers just below it on the result piece of plastic and you just type in those numbers, worked a treat.

I have never done a lateral flow test although I know lots of people who do them regularly when meeting up with people, I had no idea you had to report the result of the tests.
My pharmacy sent a box along with my meds which I get delivered every eight weeks.
This was several months ago.

Surely people just keeping as safe as possible and so taking a test just as an added precaution eg before meeting friends after going into busy indoor situations and getting negative results will just result in making the virus data look better than it is? But then this has been the case for so many government stats, the phrase, lies lies and statistics come to mind

A QR code is just a representation of a string of letters and numbers. Bit like a barcode. This from the government website:

If you give the pharmacy a 'collect code' when you pick up the tests, it helps the NHS match your details to the tests.

It seems to refer just to England.

If you don't have a smartphone, you can just use the string of letters and numbers that the QR code represents. You can get it by calling 119.

test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/collect-lateral-flow-kits

The QR code that you might use when you record the result is a totally different QR code.

Every piece of information you get with the LFT packs tells you to record the result whether it's negative or not. 2 reasons:

The stats that the NHS collects includes the percentage of positive tests against negative tests to allow them to understand the prevalence of the virus.

Also, if nobody bothers to report their negative tests, the NHS doesn't know if you are just stockpiling tests, not bothering to report, or even not reporting positive tests.

So they need to know about negative ones as well. If you order by post, for example, they can trace each individual test back to you. If you pick them up without identification then don't report them, they don't know where those tests have gone.

I think if you get a positive Lateral Flow you are supposed to go to get a PCR test to me sure.

I really can’t see the problem with reporting the results, I have to report the result every time I do one before I go to see my mother in her nursing home. How can the virus be tracked if people don’t report the results?

Good post Alegrias.

I guess I will be on my own on this forum. However, I still remember '3 weeks to flatten the curve'.

maddyone

I really can’t see the problem with reporting the results, I have to report the result every time I do one before I go to see my mother in her nursing home. How can the virus be tracked if people don’t report the results?

I must admit I haven't logged a few that I did when I have had a cold etc but I have to log to see my daughter, like you do with your Mum. It doesn't even take that long if you have an account logged with the NHS now. The most difficult part is reading the code which presumably is the QR code as it is a mixture of letters and numbers (I log on my laptop btw not phone)