ABBREVIATIONS POCT: Point-Of-Care Testing; BBPs: Blood Borne Pathogens INTRODUCTION Point-Of-Care-Testing (POCT) has been used for many years across all forums of disease detection and utilised in many typical healthcare and indeed, non-healthcare settings [1]. The benefits of knowing a rapid diagnosis are many fold in terms of ensuring engagement of care for the patient/client, initiating a care pathway protocol for a positive diagnosis, potential rapid treatment for prevention or cure of the disease ascertained and in terms of communicable diseases, potential prevention of ongoing transmission.