FALCON study

Official Twitter account for the FALCON study, part of the CONDOR programme. FALCON will evaluate new tests for COVID-19 and is funded by the NIHR and Asthma UK

[Dr Lennard Lee- FRCP, DPhil, BmBCh @drlennardlee]

@SMHopkins @UKHSA @unioxford @ModMedMicro @unibirmingham @DHSCgovuk Indeed. Incredible that >250 ppl worked so effectively with much blood sweat & tears to get us here. From @ModMedMicro @UniofOxford @unibirmingham students @falcon_study @NIHRcommunity CRN @NIHRCRN_gman @phe Porton Down, T&T LTS to our brilliant civil service at DH!

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@RossD72002 @KathrynL74 @NIHRCRN_tvsm @OUHospitals It’s been a genuine pleasure to work with you, Ross! Good luck in your new job

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@redneckbritboy Before you put anyone down, you should check the facts.
You have this one wrong. That’s all I’ll say on Twitter - please check with Avacta

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@PhilOrford @richardbody @PerditaB It’s a little soon to be sure, but recruitment has started well in 12 hospitals. We’ve started student testing, staff testing & community testing (via Test & Trace) - and now we have to monitor recruitment. Can update when we know more

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

Fantastic work, team!

[Zena Haslam @ZenaHaslam]

Flying high with FALCON @falcon_study here at @SOHNHS_Research thanks to the hard work and dedication of @DrCraigJR and his team at @SONHStrust #soproud #researchrules

[Liam Barrett @126Liam]

Today we recruited our 50th patient to the Falcon Study 👋 (Facilitating AcceLerated Clinical Validation Of Novel Diagnostics for COVID-19), Big thank you to @SusieHardwick5! + @falcon_study @RCEMPolicyVP @CambridgeEmerg1 @CUH_NHS @MRI_ED @richardbody @CATO_Cambridge

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

That didn’t take long. *Congratulations*, @ImperialNHS - you got number 2,000! 🎉🎉👏👏

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

Right, who’s going to find number 2,000?

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@PhilRaynolds The Avacta BAMS assay is included within a national initiative evaluating mass spec for #COVID19

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@PaulSemple9 @drlennardlee @UniofOxford @NIHRresearch @PHE_uk Unfortunately we can’t answer that because we’re not party to that information. @PHE_uk ran the early evaluations & may be able to help

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

Fantastic to have contributed to this. And what an effort it was by the teams working at 14 testing centres across the country! 👏👏👏

[Dr Lennard Lee- FRCP, DPhil, BmBCh @drlennardlee]

Great to share info about what the @UniofOxford and myself and the @falcon_study and @NIHRresearch has been busy working on. To provide evidence for use of rapid tests using lateral flow with @PHE_uk.

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

The team in the West Midlands did an *outstanding* job to recruit participants in Birmingham, Coventry & Stoke to the Moonshot arm of the FALCON study, helping to get lateral flow tests validated
Julie Timmins has made a fantastic video here... https://t.co/0CfZWiWHmu

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

Close to 300 more participants this week - we end the week with just over 1,500 participants registered in @CastorEDC & more being registered as we speak - fantastic effort from all the teams! 👏👏👏

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@Superyotter We’re not involved with this so we can’t shed any light on it

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@Superyotter @DavidBurton1971 @TanDhesi This hasn’t got anything to do with the @falcon_study - sorry we can’t shed any light on this

[Paul Dark @DarkNatter]

I couldn't agree more Jay and it has been the approach from the start. We need to continue be fully behind @NIHRresearch mission at eveystep now - the only way out of this for everyone- vaccines, diagnostics, treatments, health protection and social support.

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

... And a particular shout out to Cwm Taf Morgannwg, who started on Friday & got off the mark with 7 participants included. Super work! Thanks to all! 👏👏👏
@CTMUHB_RD

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

What a week! We finish on 1234 participants entered into the database - but likely many more that the hard working teams haven’t entered data for yet

The LFD evaluations at 14 testing centres are now complete. Thank you so much to everyone for your incredibly hard work!

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@buy_buy_bye @PhilRaynolds Yes we do - in work stream B (at testing centres)

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

*Huge* landmark today... [drum roll...]

We've hit 1,000 participants in the FALCON study!

Incredible achievement - well done to everyone! Keep going. You're doing a great job 👍

[FALCON study @falcon_study]

@buy_buy_bye @PhilRaynolds The FALCON study has looked at lateral flow tests & supported one LAMP evaluation. Within the wider CONDOR programme, we’ve also looked at other LAMP tests