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Overview of Covid Testing at The Montague Clinic
Overview of Covid Testing at The Montague Clinic
We have a variety of packages for sale on our website. Our landing page gives a good
overview:
https://montagueclinic.com/express-covid-tests-green-amber-countries/
If you have visited a green country, you only need to do a Day 2 test on arrival in the UK
(Day 0 is the day of arrival)
If you have visited an amber country, the tests you require depend on whether you have
been fully vaccinated by an approved vaccination programme (currently EU/USA/UK).
CLICK HERE . Essentially, if you are not vaccinated, you need to quarantine for 10 days
after arriving in the UK and perform a Day 2 and Day 8 test. If you are fully vaccinated, you
do not need to quarantine and only need to do a Day 2 test.
The vast majority of what we are doing at present involves people requiring tests after
arriving from green and amber countries.
All tests on offer in our website (apart from ‘Collect and Drop’) involve test kits being sent to
people in the mail. The UK arrival tests are dispatched on the day of arrival by Next Working
Day Delivery
In terms of the products offered in our website, they can be split into two broad categories:
Fit to fly test - the test clients require before leaving the UK. Ignore for now as generating
minimal email traffic
Test to release - a voluntary test that clients can do on Day 5 after arriving in the UK if they
are quarantining to allow them to leave quarantine. Ignore for now as generating minimal
email traffic
Premium Day 2 and 8 Package - we use more expensive London labs to get quick results
for people. Ignore for now as generating minimal email traffic
Collect and Drop Packages (Day 2 Tests) - we sell this at a heavily discounted cost.
Clients collect the test kits by hand and have to deliver them by hand to the laboratory.
There is limited availability of these but because they are cheap they are very popular and
generate a lot of email traffic.
2) Tests that we don’t arrange ourselves but are sold through an iframe in our website
A large laboratory embeds a booking widget in our website which people can purchase. The
kits are sent out by the lab (on day of arrival) and the whole process is the responsibility of
the lab.
These 3 tests make up over 90% of our bookings. Despite being arranged by the lab, we
receive numerous queries which we need to answer.
Another issue is that a small proportion of people don’t receive their booking reference
number details on purchase. This naturally makes them anxious as they need this to
complete their Passenger Locator Form and board their flight.
There are many recurring themes in the queries people bring to us and we have created
autoexpander templates to be able to reply quickly.
This is a very quick overview but will hopefully serve as an introduction. The best place to
find any answers is the gov.uk website.
Ricky and Om