The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7364 p245
27 August 2005

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Boots to provide chlamydia screening across London

Boots The Chemists has been awarded the contract to provide free chlamydia screening across London (PJ, 12 February, p165), public health minister Caroline Flint announced this week.

Boots will be providing the service in all its London pharmacies from November. Test kits will be available over the counter and the screening and treatment service will be available to all partners of those who test positive. The company expects to provide about 50,000 tests a year. Analyses will be carried out by Quest Diagnostic Laboratories.

The pilot will be monitored and evaluated over a two-year period to test the community pharmacy setting as an alternative access point for chlamydia screening. If successful, the scheme could be rolled out nationally, the Department of Health said.