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COUNTY GRITTING FIRM PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR WORCESTER’S SUMMER BIG PARADE
Award-winning gritting and snow clearance company AA Salt has become the latest local business to pledge its support for a spectacular public art trail which is coming to Worcester this summer. The Himbleton-based family firm, which helps businesses keep premises safe by gritting and snow ploughing car parks and access roads, has become the latest firm to get involved with St Richard’s Hospice’s Worcester ‘Big Parade’ initiative – an eight-week public art event which will see 30 colourful elephant sculptures forming an art trail around the city between July and September. AA Salt will sponsor a large and an elephant calf model – with the smaller model being designed and kept by children at Bromsgrove’s Charford First School after being nominated by an employee of the firm. Nikki Rogers, AA Salt’s Managing Director said: “We absolutely loved being involved in the Stands Tall project two years ago and really wanted to show our support again in this latest initiative which I am certain will also be amazing for the city after the difficult year everyone has had.
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Ben Tanner and Nikki Rogers of AA Salt
RAPID TEST MANUFACTURER OFFERING MEMBER DISCOUNT ON LEADING LATERAL FLOW TEST
Bio-Diagnostics, with its laboratories in the Midlands, is the world’s leading ultra-rapid test manufacturer. Their three-minute Covid-19 BioCard™ technology is far faster and more accurate than any COVID-19 lateral flow available in the world. Bio-Diagnostics has supplied high street pharmacy groups and global brands with accurate diagnostic tools that be used anywhere and give near instant results to patients. This innovative immunology specialist serves a diverse range of areas, including COVID-19 testing, autoimmune disease and allergy testing. Millions of reliable tests have been provided for use throughout the NHS and global markets over their 41-year history. Extensive contract manufacture and laboratory service experience places Bio-Diagnostics at the centre of the current global pandemic. Utilising spare capacity, the company makes components for third parties for PCR testing, and processing of samples. The COVID-19 BioCard™ is already identifying where the vaccine has been successful, and where it has failed to result in the spike antibodies that provide immunity. Their testing service is performed in their own laboratories, here in the Midlands, UK, in the same British company that researched, designed and manufactures the BioCard™. For any company connected with the UK Chamber of Commerce, they have set up a discount code so that immediate access to the test can be obtained. Simply enter “CHAMBER” on www.covid19BioCard. co.uk, and a 60% discount will be applied to every test ordered.
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Bio-Diagnostics Ltd Managing Director, Simon Mico
UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER STUDENT NURSES HEAD BACK TO THE FRONTLINE
Student nurses from the University of Worcester will once again be heading to the frontline to bolster the ranks of the NHS in the battle against Covid-19. Third year students, coming towards the end of their degrees, are to be employed by partner Trusts to work in hospitals and community care settings. In the first lockdown, around 450 University of Worcester students put themselves forward to work on the frontline, including those studying to be nurses, midwives, paramedics and physiotherapists. So far 74 of Worcester’s student nurses have put themselves forward and will begin taking up paid placements on the frontline in the coming days and weeks. Robert Dudley, Head of the University of Worcester’s Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, said: “Our third-year nursing students are once again being called upon to support frontline staff in what are very challenging times for the NHS. In the first lockdown, more than 200 Nursing students put themselves forward, and did an outstanding job. Many of those moved into accommodation at the University so that they would not ‘bring the virus home’ to the rest of the family.” The University is currently working hard to create a new campus for health and wellbeing and a new medical school to serve the people of our region and beyond.
