Forte Medical finalist in SEHTA Business Awards
Forte Medical: Innovation Finalist The prestigious South East Health Technology Alliance Business Awards last night recognised Forte Medical and our Peezy Midstream MedTech. The hotly… Read More
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Why common urine-based diagnoses fail.
Reliable urine collection? Read Giovanna’s post about woeful national results around urine specimen collection contamination rates – from 0.08% to 70.58% – that make accurate… Read More
Texas: land of clinical and procurement collaboration
Forte Medical is just back from a successful and educational ABHI MedTech Mission to Texas. The most valuable intelligence we gleaned was the way… Read More
NHS National Research Institute Usability Study Results
Forte Medical is delighted to release usability data on Peezy Midstream. The research was conducted by the NHS National Research Institute with the Trauma Management… Read More
Right-first-time: raising the bar at NHS Wakefield.
“If you don’t get it right first time, money is wasted by inefficiencies.” Dr Philip Earnshaw, Wakefield GP, CCG Chair:… Read More
Health Tech 2017: a case for greater connection, featuring Forte Medical
Leading international law firm Nabarro today issued a report on UK Med Tech. The document features interviews with industry opinion formers drawn from the Association… Read More
Philip Kennedy appointed Non-Executive Director at Forte Medical
Forte Medical, the designer and manufacturer of innovative medical devices to improve specimen collection, is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Kennedy as a… Read More
Managing Innovation in Healthcare
In his new book “Managing Innovation in Healthcare”, Professor James Barlow has written about Forte Medical’s journey to achieve adoption of its Peezy Midstream system… Read More
Diagnostic innovation: making midstream mainstream
Forte Medical’s MedTech is low tech … and that’s the point at which interest wanes, for people want the intangible techie stuff, the next… Read More
Pitch@Palace: what’s that all about, then?
“Why don’t you go for Pitch@Palace?” asked a new business contact. Why indeed! I had never heard of it and frankly, what could The Palace… Read More
ABHI Mission to Texas: we have lift-off
“You will get out of the ABHI what you put in,” said a friendly counterpart from the Urology world, to whom I had been sent… Read More
Reducing contamination in urine samples
Professor Frank Chindgwundoh MBE talks to News-Medical.net about the issues around inaccurate urine screening and how repeat testing and repeat patient appointments can be… Read More
The Forte Medical Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine
We are proud to be part of Urology Awareness Month this September: “Clinical Innovation in Specimen Collection and Diagnostics” Royal Society of Medicine… Read More
NHS: brick walls to innovation and £30m savings
65m urine specimens are taken every year on the NHS … without a defined protocol. Mixed growth rates (unreliable specimens) vary from 1.4% to over… Read More
Private labs vs NHS: Forte letter in The Guardian
A letter from Forte Medical has today been published in The Guardian. The letter responds to the national newspaper’s investigation into… Read More
Exporting healthcare innovation: an interview
Interesting specimens: saving healthcare budgets by exporting healthcare innovation and universal diligence. Online business magazine Womanthology interviewed Forte Medical CEO Giovanna… Read More
Forte addresses over 300 women at Hubdot
Hubdot, the leading global women’s network invited Giovanna Forte to present a one-minute summary of her career to over 300 women on Wednesday 3rd February… Read More
Made in Britain Health Newsletter
Forte Medical is pleased and proud that CEO Giovanna Forte has guest edited the Made in Britain special edition health newsletter. Manufacturing… Read More
Celebrating Enterprising Woman
Giovanna Forte, founding Director of Forte Medical has been invited to speak at an opening day event of Global Entrepreneurship Week on Monday 16th November… Read More
Forte Medical has moved!
From 30th October 2015, we have moved from our home of seven years to bigger, brighter premises: Forte Medical Limited 12 Tabernacle Court… Read More
Midstream urine: the unsung hero of accurate diagnoses
Global online publisher news-medical.net interviewed Giovanna last year about the development and purpose of Peezy Midstream, the invention designed by NHS GP Dr Vincent Forte,… Read More
Dispex Magazine Interview
Forte Medical Founding Director and CEO Giovanna Forte was delighted to be interviewed recently by Dispex Magazine, the leading voice for… Read More
Leading parenting website reviews Peezy Midstream
When leading parenting website Baby Centre e-mailed to say that one of their top bloggers would review Peezy Midstream, we were delighted. Not many consumer… Read More
Accurate ketone analysis with Peezy Midstream
“I have used a number of Peezy Midstreams and they are great. It certainly makes testing my ketones so much less messy and more hygienic. Read More
PEEZY MIDSTREAM PRESCRIPTION LETTER IS HERE!
Peezy Midstream Prescription Request Letter is Here! We’re delighted to announce the arrival of your Peezy Midstream Prescription Request letter as a… Read More
LAUNCH PRN Magazine features Peezy Midstream
PRN is a new magazine for nurses which aims to combine professional advice with original illustration and articles on art and health. Published online,… Read More
Antenatal Peezy: goodbye mess, hello dignity
We were so delighted to find a piece on antenatal urine testing on Babyworld that we ran a competition with them. Read More
Good clean health news for pregnant women
RIGHT FIRST TIME HYGIENIC URINE COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE ON PRESCRIPTION Accurate midstream sample Dry hands and bottle No start-stop-start Good news for pregnant… Read More
UK Standards for Microbiology Investigation of Urine 2014
INVESTIGATION OF URINE Peezy Midstream design and efficacy meet recommendations from the latest Investigation of Urine report from Public Health England. Exerpt 1 (pages… Read More
NHS Alliance Innovation in Action Award Shortlist
“We’re delighted to announce that Forte Medical has been shortlisted for the Innovation in Action Awards.” And so began the e-mail that invited us to… Read More
TEDx Talk: From PA to PR … and what happened when the R fell off.
This talk was given by Giovanna Forte at a local TEDx event. “A sassy, feisty education in blazing your own path and making it in… Read More
Silo Thinking at the NHS, Despite ‘Reforms’
NHS GP, Peezy inventor and Forte Medical co-founder, Dr Vincent Forte, wrote to the Financial Times following the recent debate on antibiotic resistance. Transcript below… Read More
How a British Invention Inspired by Women Became a Diagnostic Aid for All
We’ve all had to do it. At the doctor’s surgery or at home: deliver a urine sample into a small bottle. It was this very… Read More
Design case study for new Peezy IFU by Luto
Luto, the specialist design business for pharma and medical devices instructions for use, share their process in creating the new Peezy Midstream IFU. A team… Read More
Design Week documents the Peezy Midstream journey
In 2009 Design Week awarded Peezy Best Of Show at their prestigious Awards. Being masters of design integrity, they have kept an eye on our… Read More