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COVID-19 PCR Tests & Fit to Wing Certificates

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Covid-19 Coronavirus PCR Tests

Equally a UKAS registered Covid-nineteen test provider listed on the government website gov.uk, DocTap offers same twenty-four hours and next day Covid-19 PCR swab tests from our 10+ London locations. We understand how important it is to evangelize a fast and reliable testing service, detail for travellers requiring a PCR examination for flying. For this reason, all our tests are taken by a healthcare professional at one of our exam centres and then taken to the laboratory past our in house couriers. For added peace of mind, patients receive regular email notifications throughout the testing process. All coronavirus PCR test results include both a test certificate from the laboratory and a doc's letter of the alphabet. Our uncommonly close laboratory partnerships enable u.s. to guarantee the timings for your results - or you will receive a full refund.

If you require a 24-hour interval two & 8 test or Test to Release then please ensure y'all take selected the appropriate appointment type on the booking page. Whilst they are the same type of PCR test, it volition only be valid for Mean solar day 2 & 8 or Test to Release if you lot selected that when booking.

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Covid-xix PCR Tests

Test	Toll	Results	Accurateness
PCR Side by side Solar day	from £49	Next day (by midnight)	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
Our most pop Covid-19 PCR exam with guaranteed adjacent day results (by midnight), or your coin dorsum.

PCR Same Day	£89	Past midnight	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
Same day PCR results from x+ locations across London. This is ideal for terminal minute travel or the added piece of mind which comes from receiving your results and certificate a couple of days before flying. In the exceptionally unlikely upshot that you don't have your results by midnight we would refund your fee in full or give you lot a gratuitous aforementioned twenty-four hour period retest.

24-hour interval ii Next Day PCR	from £49	Next solar day (by midnight)	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
This test is required for unvaccinated international arrivals. Includes genetic sequencing of positive results to find any variants of concern inbound the country.

Twenty-four hours viii Next Day	from £49	Next twenty-four hour period (by midnight)	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
Required PCR test for international arrivals. Quarantine guarantee: if you take not received your Mean solar day 8 results the adjacent mean solar day (by midnight) we volition offer you a free same day re-examination.

Test to Release PCR Next Solar day	from £49	Side by side day (by midnight)	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
Reduce your quarantine with guaranteed side by side day results (by midnight), or your coin back.

Test to Release PCR Same Day	£89	By midnight	Sensitivity: 98%, Specificity: 100%
Maximise the benefit of Examination to Release with same solar day results. In the uncommonly unlikely event that your results are not dorsum by midnight, we would refund you test fee in total and provide a retest if required.

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Covid-nineteen Test - FAQ

bookings

How much does a Covid-19 examination cost?

We are pleased to have the widest range and best priced Covid-xix tests of any London clinic. Please visit the booking folio for a full list of tests, prices and availability. Some of our near pop tests are:

PCR Examination (next day past midnight) - from £49
PCR Test (same 24-hour interval) - £89
Antigen Exam - from £24
Antibiotic Test - from £45 (+GP consultation fee)

How do I book a Covid-19 test?

All tests are booked online hither. Simply select Covid-19 Coronavirus Exam / Fit to Fly. Then cull the type of examination which you require and it will show you all the clinic locations and times you tin can book. Different clinics offer different types of test, so you may wish to select a couple of different test types to find the most user-friendly location for you lot. PCR tests cost from £129 and point of care tests from £59.

Should you require multiple tests for your trip then please book them all individually.

Where can I get a Covid-19 test?

Our tests are carried out at ane of our five+ London clinics, staffed past healthcare professionals. To select a location, but visit the booking page and select Covid-19 Coronavirus Test / Fit to Fly. Choose the type of exam which y'all require and it will testify you all the available clinic locations and times. Unlike clinics offer different types of test, so you may wish to select a couple of different test types to find the most user-friendly location for you.

Tin can I change or abolish my exam?

We accuse extra for changing the engagement engagement/fourth dimension/location every bit our prices vary depending on acme times. We can refund in total and so long as you lot take non yet taken the test, but unable to make changes or refunds afterward you have taken the exam. To change or cancel your test please log into your DocTap account.

Please Note: Day 2 and Day viii are mandatory tests and therefore not-refundable. Nevertheless, we can modify your date engagement/time/location if required.

How practise I book tests for multiple people?

Simply book a test for the get-go fellow member of your party. And so repeat the process for some other test, just on the payment screen enter the details of the 2d person. Repeat for any other members of your party.

If you have accidentally booked multiple tests for the same person and then don't worry, y'all will receive an automated email checking that this is what you wanted. To make a modify only reply to the e-mail with the second person'south details. Please ensure we have the correct details earlier you take your exam.

test details and timings

How will my test be taken?

Our tests are taken by a healthcare professional, however in some cases, yous can perform a clinic-guided self-swab where applicable. PCR tests require a swab to exist taken from the back of your throat and/or nose. Lateral flow tests crave a swab from nose and/or throat. The testing procedure can exist a little uncomfortable but should not injure.

I demand a negative test for my flight. When should I take the test?

Dissimilar airlines and countries have different requirements regarding when a test must be taken. Many require a negative PCR test to have been carried out no more than than 72 hours earlier a flight, simply please cheque the government'south foreign travel communication for your destination to establish their exact requirements. Nosotros have over twenty clinics across London offering same mean solar day and next day results. We also take results in just 4 hours at our Islington and Chelsea sites. You lot tin select your preference when you volume your test.

Please be aware that a very small-scale proportion of tests will return an inconclusive result and will require retesting, which we would adapt gratis of accuse. We practise therefore propose you have your test equally shortly every bit permitted for your trip. For instance, if you crave a test taken not longer than 72 hours earlier your flight at 1pm on 10th May, the optimal time to take your test would exist at approximately 2pm on 7th May.

Can I take a examination if I have Covid-19 symptoms?

No. We are just able to offering tests for patient who exercise not accept symptoms of Covid-19. Y'all volition exist asked to confirm this on booking. If you take symptoms please book an NHS test.

What type of PCR tests do you offer?

PCR is the PHE approved, gold standard Covid-nineteen exam. This is a SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) opposite transcriptase real-time PCR swab. Whilst we are not aware of whatever countries not accepting our tests for border entry, please ever check your exact requirements before booking.

What identification practise I need?

When attending your date, delight bring your booking reference number (in your confirmation email) and official, government-result photo identification. Your ID needs to friction match the proper noun that the booking is under.

Delight Note: Under 16 year olds must exist accompanied by an adult. Both the minor and guardian must show a valid ID.

Tin can my child accept a COVID-19 test?

Our experienced healthcare professionals can bear out Covid-19 tests on young children. In some instances, the child may experience more comfortable if their parent performs the test. In this instance, our healthcare professionals will exist able to assist and guide the parent to take a swab from the child.

Exercise you lot do postal tests?

No. Given the critical importance of fast results and right swab technique nosotros do not entrust your test sample to the postal system. All samples are taken in one of our x+ London locations. We so take our team of in business firm couriers who collect them to have to the laboratory. In this way we are confident nosotros can offer the highest level of accuracy and reliability for your Covid examination.

results and certificates

When will I become my results?

Different tests have different turnaround times. These are explained at the fourth dimension that you book your Covid-xix test. Yous will receive your results and physician'due south letter by email within the specified timeframe. They will also be bachelor to download from your DocTap portal at the same time. Nosotros currently offer the following options for results:

PCR - Same day past 2am
PCR - Adjacent day by midnight
Antigen fit to fly - 1 hour
Antibody (Instant) - three hours
Antibody (laboratory) - three days

Unfortunately we are unable to speed upwardly your results once you accept taken your examination. Therefore, if you need faster results, please change your appointment blazon to a faster service before taking the test. You can do this in your DocTap account portal.

What information is included with my results?

You will receive your md's letter of the alphabet as soon equally your results are prepare. This volition include:

Proper name
Engagement of Birth
Gender
Address
Passport / ID
The examination type. For PCR this will exist: SARS-CoV-two (COVID-xix) RT-PCR Test
The appointment and fourth dimension that the swab sample was nerveless
Confirmation that the swab was taken past a healthcare professional
The issue and date
Confirmation from a doctor of your Covid test issue and whatever appropriate deportment to take.
Dr.'s signature and GMC number
DocTap contract details and logo

For PCR tests you will likewise receive a separate results certificate produced past the laboratory themselves. This includes:

Name
Date of Birth
Passport / ID (if provided and VAT is paid on booking)
Test blazon & methodology
Sample reference
Sample nerveless date
Reported date
Results
Details of the laboratory

Can I cheque up on the status of my test?

After taking your test you lot will receive an email explaining all the notifications yous will receive as your test sample moves through the testing process, together with when can wait to receive them. These vary a fiddling depending on the exact examination and location booked, but they are typically:

Your test is collected by our courier to take to the laboratory
The lab offset testing your sample
Your results are ready

If you have non received a notification past the advised time then please do let us know and we shall await into it immediately. If the notification is not all the same due then please don't contact us equally it will almost certainly nevertheless be being candy and we are unable to bank check upwardly on tests until they are due.

Are results affected by weekends or banking concern holidays?

No, you will nonetheless get your results in exacly the same timeframe, regardless of which day of the week you take your test. Our laboratories and support team operate 7 days per week, including bank holidays.

Can I have my passport number on my results certificate?

Yes. Many countries require your passport number to be nowadays on your test results certificate. You volition be invited to enter your passport number or ID number on booking. Alternatively, you can enter it at any time in your DocTap portal. It volition then be shown on your test results document.

Tin I speed upward my results?

Once yous have taken your examination we are unable to speed up your results. We have integrated with our laboratory partners to ensure that you volition automatically receive your results and physician'south certificate as soon a they are released by the laboratory. If you have not yet taken your test, you tin can always alter to a faster examination if required. Nosotros tin can provide results in 4 hours from our Islington and Chelsea lab sites (non available for day 2 PCR or Exam to release), and by 2am that dark from multiple London locations. To modify your exam delight log into your DocTap acccount.

Can I get my certificate signed past a doctor?

To ensure the fastest possible turnaround, your results and doctor'due south document will exist emailed to you. Our physician'south letters are on a DocTap headed document and include the signature and GMC number of our medical director. We have had very few requests for paper copies or stamps.

Should you crave one of these then we can arrange it to be stamped or signed at 1 of our London clinics at no actress charge. If you lot crave this please allow us know once yous have received your results. Please allow an additional 24 hours to arrange press and signing of your certificate. We only have a limited number of London locations where you lot can collect a certificate from. We will be able to suggest you on your options depending on the day your results are available.

Can I become a document without a exam?

No. We are simply able to issue doctor's certificates for tests which take been booked with DocTap. If you are in a hurry you can book a aforementioned day or iii hour PCR test here and yous will get a doctor's alphabetic character along with your results.

mean solar day ii and 8

Do I need a Twenty-four hour period 2 and viii Covid-19 test?

You need to get tested for COVID-19 if you're arriving in England from abroad. The test you lot will need to have depends on whether you are vaccinated and where y'all are arriving from. Children under 5 practise non demand to get tested on inflow.

Fully vaccinated passengers and nearly under 18s arriving from non cherry-listing countries will now require a 24-hour interval 2 lateral flow test taken on or earlier mean solar day two of arrival. Total details on who is considered fully vaccinated can be establish here.

Not-vaccinated arrivals are required to quarantine for 10 days, and accept a twenty-four hours two PCR test + a day viii PCR test. There is the selection to come up out of quarantinebefore (solar day 5), if you book a Test to release PCR exam.

If you lot are arriving from red list travel ban country then y'all will to have quarantine in a government approved hotel and take a postal test. Otherwise you tin can take your 24-hour interval 2 and 8 tests with DocTap.

How much does a Day 2 & 8 package cost?

You demand to book a 24-hour interval 2 and viii tests if you are a non-vaccinated returning traveller. If yous are fully vaccinated, you will only need a 24-hour interval 2 lateral menstruation test (from £25).

If you are non fully vaccinated, for added flexibility, we sell Twenty-four hour period 2 and eight tests separately from £59 each. For an additional £59 you can add on a side by side twenty-four hour period Test to Release and / or outbound PCR examination. Or for £95 you could upgrade these to same day results.

Our Day 2 & 8 tests are taken by a healthcare professional at ane of our London test centres. We practice not practise postal tests and use our own courier to transport samples to the laboratory. All tests are covered by our Quarantine Guarantee to ensure that yous don't accept to spend a minute more cocky isolating than is legally required.

When should I take my Day ii and 8 international arrival tests?

If you are fully vaccinated, you must take a twenty-four hour period 2 lateral flow test. Your Mean solar day 2 test must exist taken between day 0 and twenty-four hours 2 of quarantine (day 0 is the day yous arrive in England). Yous may choose to book your Mean solar day ii test before yous travel, either on its own, or as a combination package with your fit to wing exam.

If you are a not-vaccinated traveller, you will be required to take a Day 2 PCR test and a Day 8 PCR Exam. Your Day 8 test must be taken on or subsequently solar day 8 of arrival in the Britain. You volition have the option for Test to release on mean solar day five.

Example: If yous arrived on Monday, your Solar day two exam tin be done on the Mon, Tuesday or Wednesday. Your Solar day 8 tin be done on or after the following Tuesday. We would suggest you exercise not delay your Solar day 8 exam equally you are not allowed to end your 10 day quarantine unless y'all accept received a negative Solar day 8 test result.

What is your Quarantine Guarantee?

Nosotros are aware how frustrating it would be to have to keep cocky isolating subsequently the mandatory quarantine period because one or both of your tests was delayed or lost in the postal service. For this reason we only provide in person tests and only work with the fastest and well-nigh reliable laboratories. This enables us to offer the post-obit guarantees:

If your 24-hour interval 2 PCR and Examination to Release results are not back by the brash fourth dimension we will refund your fee in full and arrange a re-test gratuitous of charge.
Book a Day 2 and Test to Release exam with DocTap, and if either result is not back by the advised Exam to Release deadline we will refund the cost of your Test to Release and arrange an express re-examination free of accuse.
If your Day 8 examination results are not back by the following evening (day nine) we shall arrange a gratuitous same solar day re-examination the next morning so you can stop self isolating at the end of 10 day as normal.

test to release

What is the Test to Release scheme?

Test to Release is a government scheme to enable non-vaccinated people arriving in the UK to reduce the amount of time for which they must self isolate.

Non-vaccinated arrivals from outside the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of man needs to self-isolate for x days. Under the Test to Release scheme (provided you are not returning from a red-list country), you lot can choose to pay for a private Covid-19 test afterwards you have been in England for a 5 full days. We provide provide options with both same day and next day results. If the examination result is negative then you can stop self-isolating immediately.

For instance, if you arrive in the UK on Mon and so Tuesday would be your first full solar day in the United kingdom, and you lot cannot have the examination for Saturday.

If you lot require Test to Release, then please ensure that yous select Test to Release equally an appointment blazon on the booking page or it volition not be accustomed by the goverment.

Can I go a exam to reduce my quarantine when returning to the Uk

Yes. You can take a Test to Release on 24-hour interval 5 afterwards arriving in England. If your event it negative yous can terminate self isolating immediately. DocTap provides Test to Release with aforementioned mean solar day results. For details please visit our Test to Release page.

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Please note that our provision of Covid-nineteen coronavirus tests does not bear upon on NHS test availability, instead, by providing the tests at competitive prices compared with other providers, our service aims to work as a helpful adjunct to the NHS past increasing testing options in the community. We as well written report all positive results to Public Health England, and this is obligatory.

Important annotation: where patients are taking a cocky swab they must do equally directed in the instructions provided. Failure to take a swab as directed, or to take a swab on behalf of someone else is a gross breach of the terms of this service.

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