Web16 jun. 2024 · The UK Biocentre is located on the outskirts of Milton Keynes in a quiet industrial estate. Since March, this unobtrusive building has become one of three Lighthouse Labs (the others are in Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire), the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities in British history, analysing COVID-19 swabs from … Web22 apr. 2024 · 22.04.2024 - The Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow - a major new COVID-19 testing facility based in Scotland - is now operational. The Lighthouse Lab, which officially started testing samples for COVID-19 this week, is part of what will be the biggest network of diagnostic testing facilities in British history, alongside other Lighthouse Lab …
Panorama "Breaks" Story on Cross-Contamination in Lighthouse …
Web29 mrt. 2024 · An investigation by the BBC's Panorama found a number of safety breaches and failings at the scandal-hit Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes during the second wave. Web11 mei 2024 · The Biocentre laboratories in Milton Keynes are currently supporting large-scale analysis of Covid-19 swabs from across the whole of the UK. Photograph: Graeme … scythe yasya
Collaboration during a crisis - the Lighthouse Lab volunteers
Web29 mrt. 2024 · Better late than never I suppose. Tonight’s episode of Panorama – Undercover: Inside the Covid Testing Lab – reveals that staff at the Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes have been cutting corners and processing samples in a way that could lead to cross-contamination between test samples. Readers will recall that Lockdown … Web12 apr. 2024 · In a recent interview with The BMJ , Paul Nurse said that covid-19 PCR testing in the UK in 2024 was a shambles.1 I respond as someone who volunteered to help set up the Milton Keynes Lighthouse testing laboratory. I agree with Nurse that in 2024 the government should have used academic laboratories to ramp up covid PCR testing … Web29 mrt. 2024 · The Milton Keynes lab was inspected by the UK Accreditation Service in November 2024 and was recommended for an accreditation which recognises … scythia graeca