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Coronavirus (COVID-19): evaluation of submissions of diagnostic products

How the Department of Health and Social Care evaluates the submissions of commercially available COVID-19 diagnostic products.

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This document provides guidance on how the Department of Health and Social Care evaluates approaches from industry to encourage diagnostic and other scientific innovation.

Published 20 March 2020
Last updated 14 April 2020 + show all updates
  1. Added following bullet point under list of criteria on which a decision to progress to stage 2 of the rapid evaluation process is based: 'whether the product does or does not conform to any relevant published guidance'.

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