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 women: Peezy Midstream, the state of the art urine collection system used in private healthcare and the most diligent NHS Trusts is available on prescription, ideal for antenatal screening when no charges apply. GPs can prescribe as many kits as a woman needs for the duration of her pregnancy. Designed by a doctor (and made in Britain) Peezy Midstream can be kept and used at home, guaranteeing an accurate and clean specimen for antenatal screening. This unique system brings confidence and dignity to a hit-and-miss process ….

Unequivocal result
Dignity and hygiene
Reliable automatic MSU

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“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 join the NHS Alliance crowd for the Award Ceremony, taking place at the end of the Breaking Boundaries and Beyond Conference, 6th December 2014.

In the august surroundings of the Royal Institute of British Architects, we will battle out the competition for this coveted gong.

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 or on the Financial Times website here.

Sir,

Government-sponsored research into pharmaceutical solutions to reduce antibiotic prescribing is all very well, but without a belt-and-braces philosophy of bacteriology sampling accuracy, and appropriate antibiotic prescribing, the same problem will keep recurring.

I am an NHS GP and have been in practice for 22 years. A little over a decade ago I questioned why female patients returned often more than once for the same urinary tract infection. I had treated them with a broad-spectrum antibiotic and expected their problem to subside. Closer investigation led me to understand that the specimens they were providing for diagnosis were often contaminated. It transpired that up to 30% of urine specimens are contaminated – that’s up to 22m specimens each year that cannot be read, wasting lab and clinician time and money and a whole pile of antibiotics that need not be prescribed with the consequent issues of fuelling the problem of antibiotic resistance.

I invented a low-tech but perfectly targeted specimen collection system, which has won an NHS and other Awards for its efficacy, hygiene and long-term cost savings. This system is not only low-tech but low cost at around 95p per patient. Its many benefits include right-first-time treatment, implicitly precluding the over prescribing of antibiotics. It has proven, peer reviewed and published clinical evidence.

The company I co-founded has been knocking on NHS doors for the last few years demonstrating the long term benefits and cost savings of our specimen collection system. Apart from some enlightened champions who understand the diagnostic implications of a clean specimen, we are met with negativity by a procurement body that refuses to countenance additional expenditure on a basic but critical process they hitherto have not invested in. Silo thinking remains alive and kicking in the NHS, notwithstanding “reforms”.

This intransigence is costing the healthcare system time, money and the serious matter of antibiotic overprescribing.

Yours,

Dr Vincent Forte
Forte Medical Limited
London EC2

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 of design experts, medical professionals and lay contributors identified problems with the existing version and worked to devise clearer more comprehensive words and graphics that fit with the Peezy brand. After final, successful tests, the instructions now feature on every Peezy kit.

For additional ease of use, every case of 20 Peezys also includes a convenient, smart A4 laminated instruction sheet, handy for first-time nurse-to-patient explanation.

Read the Luto case study.