About Alere

Alere Ltd: the new name for Inverness Medical UK Ltd

Who We Are

Inverness Medical is a global diagnostics and health management company employing more than 11,000 people worldwide. We offer an extensive range of products and services that allow healthcare decisions to be taken at the point of care, helping to move diagnostic services ‘closer to home’. Responding to changing healthcare demands we have recently invested in health management resources and in the USA the Alere health services company is already one of the leading providers of health management programmes.

What We Do

We bring together diagnostic products and health screening services to enable healthcare providers to perform diagnostic testing in the clinic, community, hospital or home. This might be lipid testing as part of a Health Check programme, rapid HIV screening to find ‘undiagnosed’ disease, BNP testing for the exclusion of heart failure, or D-dimer to rule out DVT. We also have a number of innovative tests for use in the hospital environment. Our rapid cardiac markers dramatically reduce A&E admissions by excluding AMI in patients presenting with chest pain and 2010 sees the introduction of a pioneering single test for the exclusion of early pre-eclampsia. Many of our rapid test products, most notably for Clostridium difficile and Legionella screening, are also used in the hospital laboratory where they have established an excellent reputation for providing precise, accurate results.