{"id":2686,"date":"2010-08-13T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","slug":"why-do-nhs-and-private-clinics-have-different-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2686","title":{"rendered":"Why do NHS and private clinics have different recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The DUO test is accurate at 4 weeks and NHS centers should be offering it at 4 weeks also. As a precaution the NHS also offer it at 3 months. This is because the older 3<sup>rd<\/sup> generation tests were not accurate until 3 months and this protocol appears to have continued even with 4<sup>th<\/sup> generation testing now available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My local NHS use the 4th generation DUO test. Why do they recommend a test at 12 weeks yet private clinics using the same test say its accurate at 4 weeks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24454,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/24454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}