Mr. Tiernan Brady:

When do people want to test? Will people tell their bosses that they need a half day off work to attend sexual health clinics? How inconvenient an experience is that for someone who is probably trying to find reasons not to attend the sexual health clinic anyway? We are trying to design services that better understand that we must be in the way of the person and convenient to him or her instead of telling him or her to come and get it. We were in London where there was Saturday and Sunday testing in the main gay and bisexual testing centres. The queues were out the door because that was when people were free.

People might go for tests when they are worried. They were out on Friday night and something happened, so they could go for tests on Saturday. This might not necessarily get them a result, but it will certainly get them into the system in some way because they will have engaged with it and whoever is providing the test will be able to tell them to return in a few weeks' time. They have taken that step, as opposed to someone who becomes worried on a Friday night or Saturday morning but has nowhere to go because the tests are not provided on Saturdays and Sundays, in the evenings when people are off or at lunch time.