The NHS Foundation Trust set up a drive-through testing station at a site just off the A57 Sheffield Parkway dual-carriageway to handle some of the COVID-19 tests around the area during the pandemic .
A further drive-through testing station was set up by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at a site just off the A57 Sheffield Parkway dual-carriageway on 10 March ; in this case , patients ringing NHS 111 with coronavirus-like symptoms in the Sheffield area will be told to drive , if possible , to the testing centre at an allotted time.  11 March NHS England announced that testing in NHS laboratories would increase from testing 1,500 to 10,000 per day .