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Study finds ‘serious problems’ with govt list of test providers

Technology
Rob Gill
10 June 2021

Several firms have been removed from the government’s list of Covid-19 test suppliers following research that uncovered “serious flaws”.

The renewed requirement for PCR tests has dismayed the industry (Credit: Mufid Majnun / Unsplash)

Consumer campaign group Which? said its study into test providers had found evidence of “misleading” prices on the government’s official list, as well as the inclusion of some firms which did not yet offer testing services.


Which? looked at the 10 cheapest providers of tests on the government website for people arriving in the UK from an amber-list country.

But it found several of the tests on this list, ranging in price from £60 to £98, were “much more expensive” than their initial listing suggested, with other tests being currently “unobtainable”.