Information Governance
Medical Directorate
NHS Grampian
Rosehill House
Foresterhill Site
Cornhill Road
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZG
BY EMAIL
Date
20 April 2021
Jocelyn Hammer
Our Ref
FOI/2021/209
request-740870-
Enquiries to Information Governance Team
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Extension 51319
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Email
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Dear Ms Hammer
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
I refer to your e-mail dated 24 March 2021, requesting:
"For pil ar 1 tests, please indicate how many of the following PCR machines are used:
1. Abbott
2. Diasorin
3. Roche Elecsys
4. Siemens.
If other makes of machines are used, please specify the type and number.”
I can now respond as follows:
For pil ar 1 tests, please indicate how many of the fol owing PCR machines are
used:
1. Abbott
2. Diasorin
3. Roche Elecsys
4. Siemens
None of the PCR machines listed above are used for Pil ar 1 tests.
If other makes of machines are used, please specify the type and number?
Please see the table below for other machines used.
Other Machines Used/Make/Type
Number
Seegene STARlet
2
Seegene Microlab NIMBUS
1
Seegene CFX-96 Thermal Cycler
4
GeneXpert Cepheid
1
Roche cobas LIAT
5
Thermofisher Applied Biosystems 7500 Real-Time PCR System
4
Biomerieux NucliSens EasyMAG
3
Qiagen QIAcube 96 HT
1
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