Background

Forte Medical has introduced precision and reduced costs attached to routine and specialist urinary diagnostics.

Urine is full of information. It has diagnostic parity with blood, yet there is no protocol for its accurate and hygienic collection. The outcome of unreliable specimens can lead to unreliable or delayed diagnoses, over-prescribing of antibiotics and significant unwarranted cost to healthcare providers.

Forte Medical focuses on making urine collection systems that meet the highest diagnostic and screening standards for UTI and prenatal screening, early stage cancers, sports dope testing and evidential forensic medicine.

Why Midstream Matters for Prenatal services

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Where our work came from and why it matters.

The GP and his Urethra Moment

Seeing a high number of female patients in his practice surgery, Dr Vincent Forte noted that diagnosis and treatment for women’s Urinary Tract infection (UTI) was unreliable, undignified and unhygienic.

Vincent thought about how to solve these problems and this led to his Urethra Moment: the invention of Peezy Midstream.

The decades-old anomaly around basic specimen collection creates costly repeat appointments, repeat laboratory tests and unnecessary prescribing.

Peezy Midstream fixes everything.

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After winning the inaugural Medical Futures Innovation Award, he invited his sister Giovanna Forte a business consultant to lead product and company development, while he remained a full-time NHS Primary Care and Forensic Physician. Retired from the NHS, Vincent is now Medical Director at Forte Medical Limited.

More recently Peezy Mistream won the Backed by Doctors Award 2025 with Medic Footprints’ 100+ Doctors.

It is now avaiable on the NHS Supply Chain Catalogue.

Evidence and AMR

Between 34% – 60% of women presenting with UTI are prescribed antibiotics before diagnosis is confirmed.

The practice of empirical antibiotic treatment across the world not only puts women on the frontline of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), but can impact pregnancy and exacerbate cognitive issues in the elderly, risking preventable hospitalisation.

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