{"id":15480,"date":"2021-04-29T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:23:55","slug":"free-lateral-flow-tests-for-stockport-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/news\/free-lateral-flow-tests-for-stockport-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Free lateral flow tests for Stockport residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free lateral flow tests for Stockport residents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free lateral flow tests are now available from Stockport pharmacies under a new service called Pharmacy Collect. It means people without symptoms of COVID-19, can now do regular testing at home.<\/p>\n<p>Visit your\u00a0local pharmacy\u00a0to collect your free box of seven rapid tests. Follow the instructions to take your sample and get your results in 30 minutes. The test uses a device similar to a pregnancy test and does not need to be sent to a lab. If you test positive, you and anyone you live with will need to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Cath Briggs, Chair of Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group said: \u201cPharmacy Collect means it\u2019s so much easier for people to do regular testing at home. About one in three people with COVID-19 do not have symptoms but can still infect others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting tested regularly is the only way to know if you have the virus. If people test positive and self-isolate, it helps reduce the infection rate and stops the virus spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can find which pharmacies are signed up to Pharmacy Collect at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk\/\">https:\/\/maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you cannot get to a pharmacy, you can order lateral flow tests online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/testing\/regular-rapid-coronavirus-tests-if-you-do-not-have-symptoms\/\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/testing\/regular-rapid-coronavirus-tests-if-you-do-not-have-symptoms\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free lateral flow tests for Stockport residents Free lateral flow tests are now available from Stockport pharmacies under a new service called Pharmacy Collect. It means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":15482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15480\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}