The Covid-19 ‘Have you had it?” antibody test

The Covid-19 ‘Have you got it now?” antigen test in ‘Onsite Workplace Clinics’ delivered by Healthcare Professionals.

These ‘Onsite Workplace Clinics’ are by Healthcare Professionals.

All our Nurse Practitioners have active current NMC Registration PIN’s. This means they will be doing regular courses and training every year to qualify for their annual NMC registration.

As well as highly qualified they are all also experienced at working in a business environment.

We also use Paramedics and Phlebotomists who are also similarly registered, trained and experienced.

We are also supported by a retained Occupation Health Consultant to ensure we maintain the highest standards and keep up to date with the latest clinical and occupational health developments.

We ensure that the provision of all our services does not impact on NHS resources in any way.

• Your staff will be sent an email informing them the screening service will be commencing, what to do and what will be happening.
  • We have a template – this can be adjusted to fit your requirements and culture.
• When your staff arrive for work they will be met by one of our nurse practitioners before they enter your premises. Our nurses will be wearing scrubs and PPE. We will be able to advise on appropriate PPE in the workplace.
• Each member of staff will ask a formatted series of questions to assess each individual for symptoms and contacts.
• They will also have their temperature taken. We use both Tympanic thermometers and Forehead Infrared thermometers.
  • We have gained significant experience and knowledge about how to effectively and quickly assess each individual in both indoor and outdoor locations where staff are arriving for work.
  • We have discovered that modern thermometers often give incorrect readings. This is largely due to environmental conditions, particularly ambient temperature and method of travel to work. These significantly affect the accuracy of temperature measurements taken and therefore the accuracy with which each individual is assessed for signs of fever, one of the big 3 symptoms of coronavirus.
  • Further, many thermometer are themselves inaccurate. We have settled on a preferred manufacture which we have found to be consistently reliable.
  • It is essential to have experienced nurses using this equipment as they are immediately able to tell if a ‘false’ reading has registered and what to do about it. And to be use their experience to assess each individual for other symptoms.
  • In our view this is going to become an increasingly significant issue as we as a country try to avoid ‘a second wave spike’ and manage the coming winter.
• If any individual registers symptoms or temperatures outside the expected range we have developed an effective and important protocol to manage what happens next – both to protect the individual concerned, the workplace and their colleagues, and to protect our nurse practitioner.
• All individuals, on completion of tests, before entering the workplace, will be asked to confirm that they have been symptom checked and tested before entry.

We can offer 2 options for Covid-19 entry control systems

Nurse led – Complete Symptom Screening by Healthcare Professionals.

all staff will be screened on arrival for elevated temperatures and other symptoms by trained, experienced and NMC registered Healthcare Professionals.

Automated and Nurse Led – Checks and assessment of selected individuals by Healthcare Professional.

We are able to provide, through a partner organisation, advanced automated fever detection technology to enable large numbers of staff to be screened quickly. Anyone detected with an elevated temperature or other symptoms can then be referred to one of our onsite healthcare professionals.