London Medical Laboratory in talks to help revolutionise world's largest public healthcare system

Aug. 16, 2023 - PRLog -- London Medical Laboratory, the UK's first omnichannel blood testing, diagnostic and health check business, is in talks with the world's largest Government-run public healthcare system, to help slash Brazil's patient waiting lists.

Brazil's NHS equivalent, the Unified Health System (in Portuguese the Sistema Único de Saúde or SUS) offers free care at the point of delivery. The SUS offers generally high-quality services but has growing concerns around patient access due to high demand and long wait times.

London Medical Laboratory (LML) is now discussing sharing some of the knowledge behind its revolutionary blood testing technology, to help the SUS transform into a preventative healthcare system. Using methods originally developed by LML and its partners, the SUS would be able to identify problems before patients even show symptoms. This could dramatically reduce future demand by diagnosing early some of Brazil's most common health issues.

The founder and Co‑CEO of London Medical Laboratory, Flavia Araujo‑Rankin, was born in Brazil and is very familiar with the country's healthcare system. She met with two representatives from Brazil's Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA): Pedro Miranda, IPEA's Deputy Director of Sectoral Policies and Studies, Innovation and Infrastructure and Priscila Koeller, who is a researcher at IPEA´s Centre for Research on Science, Technology and Society.

Says Flavia: 'This is a wonderful opportunity for LML to share its knowledge to help reduce the burdens on Brazil's amazing but incredibly hard-pressed health service. There are currently around 618,593 doctors registered in Brazil; that's an increase of around 70% over 2010. However, the total population is around 217 million and everyone is entitled to use SUS services (although 23% of Brazilians have private healthcare plans). That show the scale of the potential demand on Brazil's public healthcare.

'Prevention is always better than cure, no matter where in the world you are. We are very excited to see how LML's knowledge and experience can be shared with Brazil's IPEA representatives and its wider healthcare system to help further improve the success of its ambitious public healthcare services.

'Here in the UK, London Medical Laboratory's wide range of fingerprick tests can be taken at home through the post, or at one of the many drop-in clinics that offer these tests across London and nationwide in over 95 selected pharmacies and health stores.

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