No lateral flow tests available

Josianne

MaizieD everyone is giving you suggestions to help. If you are desperate I can post you one of mine to attend whatever it is you need it for.

I'm really grateful for everyone's suggestions and am taking note.

We aren't in desperate need yet. I just didn't want to run out

My husband brought two boxes in today. He got them from the chemist. There does seem to be a supply issue in some areas. Hopefully that’ll be sorted out in the next few days.

I think I have a couple of LFTs left and thought I should maybe get some more. As others have said, nowt available on gov uk so I put in my home postcode to search for a pharmacy where I might collect some.
The result? "We can't find any results within 30 miles of your location".

No, I don't live somewhere up a lonely mountain but on the edge of a midlands city.
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This saga is starting to sound like stockpiling to me … the just in case of running out.

Rosalyn I can’t speak for others but I need a regular supply so that I can visit my elderly mother in her care home. Not stockpiling, but necessary.

I think I was lucky as I ordered a set this morning and got the confirmation email. Saw the BBC news a little while later, saying that they had run out.

Some of us have needed to test several times a week, even every single day throughout. You can only order one pack of 7 every other day I think? So you cannot really stockpile unless you are logging in every other day to order some. I think everyone who most probably hasn't been testing or has not needed to previously, has ordered one box via the nhs website over the weekend or after Mr Johnson addressed the nation.

The advice is to test before you go and meet people, and as Christmas traditions are to meet up with family and friends at Christmastime it will be prudent to have more than one box of 7 tests.

maddyone

Rosalyn I can’t speak for others but I need a regular supply so that I can visit my elderly mother in her care home. Not stockpiling, but necessary.

yes, there will be lots of us!

According to several news reports we have plenty of lateral flow tests it was just that so many were ordered they can only do so many orders a day

I've just ordered some on the NHS website no problem.

Now we'll all try and order, and all be in a queue.

we got two packs this morning ,the asssistant said no shortage here .

How very odd. I have just tried and the message came up that there were none available.

They seem to be available online again now.

Nowhere within 30 miles of here is the message at the moment.

MissAdventure

Nowhere within 30 miles of here is the message at the moment.

How strange. I managed to put in an order just under an hour ago, then my son did the same.
No guarantee that they will come any time soon though, I suppose, though I got the usual confirmation message saying they should come within two days.

Perhaps it'll work if I keep trying.
I usually have them supplied by work, so have never had this problem.

I'll keep having a look though.

I’ve ordered mine to collect tomorrow at our local chemist.

I've tried that option, but nope.
Not within 30 miles.

I’m sorry to hear that.

Same here. Not within 30 miles.Reading is 10 miles away . I can't believe that there is nowhere there.

Never mind.
I'll keep! (I hope)

Scribbles

I think I have a couple of LFTs left and thought I should maybe get some more. As others have said, nowt available on gov uk so I put in my home postcode to search for a pharmacy where I might collect some.
The result? "We can't find any results within 30 miles of your location".

No, I don't live somewhere up a lonely mountain but on the edge of a midlands city.
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I got that 'nothing within 30 miles' message when I only put in the first part of my postcode. When I entered all of it there were 3 local collection points available, (a couple of miles away).

I'm trotting up there tomorrow morning clutching my code...

I looked yesterday on the NHS website and got the ‘None Available’ message.
I’ve just signed in again and successfully ordered a box.
(I’ll have two boxes then, which will be more than enough for us)