NHS goes digital

Those nice people from NICE have set up a handy portal called Evidence in which you can search within the NHS for whatever you want. So I tapped in QuantiFERON and selected time and first cab off the rank was the latest (August 2009) user manual for the National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory (NMRL).

Big news for them and even bigger news for us is that

Interferon Gamma Release Assays for detection of latent infection and diagnosis have been introduced.

 I can only find reference to QuantiFERON

Interferon Gamma Release Assay
Quantiferon Assay   Reports sent out within 10 working days of receipt of sample.

The HPA have recently produced some guidelines for the collection, storage and transportation of QFT-GIT plus order forms

Please send me _____ packs of QuantiFERON®-TB Gold blood collection tube sets (pack of 10 Antigen tubes (Red cap), 10 Nil antigen tubes (Grey cap), and 10 Mitogen tubes (Purple Cap).

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