Roche Diagnostics

At Roche UK, we focus our energy and investment in developing tests and treatments that change lives and give us more quality time with the people we love. And, together with others, we’re aiming to solve healthcare’s greatest challenges; helping to achieve better results by connecting early diagnosis to targeted treatment and ongoing support.

Approach to Healthcare:

Healthcare matters to all of us. That’s why we work hard to ensure that all our new medicines are made available to those who need them through the NHS – wherever they live, whatever their circumstances.

Impact of Products/Services on Healthcare:

In 2023, more than 755 million Roche diagnostic tests were used to confirm, rule out or manage health conditions and over 546,000 patients benefited from our medicines and diabetes monitoring and insulin delivery system. During this period, we contributed £1.56 billion to the UK economy, supporting nearly 20,000 jobs.

Proud of what we do, we’re here because we care. In the UK we employ over 2,000 brilliant specialists who work together to transform the lives of patients and their loved ones.

Innovation:

In July 2025 Roche received a CE Mark for its minimally invasive pTau181 blood test to help rule out Alzheimer’s disease. The test, which has been developed in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, can be used by clinicians in conjunction with other clinical information to rule out Alzheimer’s disease as the cause of cognitive decline. This could avoid the need for further confirmatory investigation for patients testing negative.

Roche and partners (Broad Clinical Labs, Boston Children’s Hospital) set a Guinness World Record in October 2025 for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, utilizing “Sequencing by Expansion” (SBX) technology. The team achieved a complete human genome sequence in under 4 hours (specifically 3 hours and 57 minutes), breaking the previous record of 5 hours and 2 minutes.

Future Direction:

For more information on our future directions in Sepsis, as well as our other diagnostic areas, please visit https://www.roche.co.uk/