We plan to place the Halo Reader free and charge £45 a test.

The plan is a reagent-rental agreement. We put a Halo Reader on your bench at no charge and you pay for the cartridges you use. It is designed to sit next to your blood culture incubators, run 24 hours a day and send results to your laboratory information system.

You can’t order one yet. We are building the first Halo Readers now, and they will go to pilot labs. If your lab serves a neonatal unit and processes more than 20 positive blood cultures a month, register below and we’ll contact you when a pilot Halo Reader is ready.