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Which company LFT is best?

izawa
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edited 21 January 2022 at 3:50PM in Coronavirus support and help
So far we have 4 of these

1 Original NHS branded ones (more white less blue packaging)
2 Orient gene
3 SureScreen (Made in 🇬🇧)
4 Flowflex (more blue less white packaging)

Which ones give nice results?

I like Surescreen ones as they have less packaging. Looks wise, Flowflex look most fancy. NHS & Orient gene ones look meh. 
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  • soolin
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    izawa said:
    So far we have 4 of these

    1 Original NHS branded ones (more white less blue packaging)
    2 Orient gene
    3 SureScreen (Made in 🇬🇧)
    4 Flowflex (more blue less white packaging)

    Which ones give nice results?

    I like Surescreen ones as they have less packaging. Looks wise, Flowflex look most fancy. NHS & Orient gene ones look meh. 
    I really don’t follow your question, What’s a nice result and why does the packaging matter to you? 
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    Which one is free?  I opted for the one available free to me through work rather than waste NHS resources.  Only issue is that I can't register the results anywhere - which doesn't matter as long as I test negative.  (only doing it as work want us to test twice weekly)
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  • izawa
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    Brie said:
    Which one is free?  I opted for the one available free to me through work rather than waste NHS resources.  Only issue is that I can't register the results anywhere - which doesn't matter as long as I test negative.  (only doing it as work want us to test twice weekly)
    All are freee
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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Nice one is that the one that's says you don't have Covid when you do ??
  • silvercar
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    Surely nice results are accurate results? 

    Some people are claiming that the ones that swab throat and nose are more accurate for omicron than the nose only ones, but I’m not sure that has been verified. (Of course, you can always choose to swab your tonsil area even with a kit made for nose only, but be careful with the short length swab sticks,)
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  • Jonty6262
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    Which is the one you have to fill your own tube with a pipette of the liquid? 
  • do these work better if you do both anyway or does it not matter?
  • izawa
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    Jonty6262 said:
    Which is the one you have to fill your own tube with a pipette of the liquid? 
    NHS & Sure screen ones
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  • y3sitsm3
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    izawa said:
    So far we have 4 of these

    1 Original NHS branded ones (more white less blue packaging)
    2 Orient gene
    3 SureScreen (Made in 🇬🇧)
    4 Flowflex (more blue less white packaging)

    Which ones give nice results?

    I like Surescreen ones as they have less packaging. Looks wise, Flowflex look most fancy. NHS & Orient gene ones look meh. 
    Perhaps, as a relationship expert, you should get to know how awful your question sounds when, to everyone but you, it sounds like you're trying to game the system?

    Given you're including mostly NHS tests, can I make the suggestion that you don't take them, and also stop ordering them?

    That'll be a lot more handy to the country than you trying to find out which one will give the result you want.
  • izawa
    izawa Posts: 156 Forumite
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    y3sitsm3 said:
    izawa said:
    So far we have 4 of these

    1 Original NHS branded ones (more white less blue packaging)
    2 Orient gene
    3 SureScreen (Made in 🇬🇧)
    4 Flowflex (more blue less white packaging)

    Which ones give nice results?

    I like Surescreen ones as they have less packaging. Looks wise, Flowflex look most fancy. NHS & Orient gene ones look meh. 
    Perhaps, as a relationship expert, you should get to know how awful your question sounds when, to everyone but you, it sounds like you're trying to game the system?

    Given you're including mostly NHS tests, can I make the suggestion that you don't take them, and also stop ordering them?

    That'll be a lot more handy to the country than you trying to find out which one will give the result you want.
    I only order when I need, never excess. I also report my results immediately. I am not doing anything wrong. I only started this thread because I am seeing different kits available and wanted to know peoples opinion.
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