Nobel winner Sir Paul Nurse says his Francis Crick Institute alone could process 60,000 tests a week
He said: “The NHS has just asked the Crick to up our output to 10,000 tests a day – 50-60,000 a week. We can easily do that but we need equipment. When we try to buy the equipment we’re told we can’t buy it because it’s all earmarked for. The NHS wants us to up our game but then the Department of Health puts blocks in the way that prevent us from doing it.”
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