Delivering a reliable urine sampling system Giovanna Forte from Forte Medical tells us about its innovation, Peezy Midstream, and the support received throughout 2020/21 T he experts at Eastern AHSN are working with us to navigate supply chain and pricing challenges, overcome common procurement barriers and help us build evidence of savings to healthcare services for our novel midstream urine sampling device, Peezy Midstream. The Forte team developed Peezy Midstream in response to challenges involved with collecting clean-catch urine samples using traditional hit-and-miss methods, which require the patient appointments and tests. Peezy Midstream was designed by an NHS GP; it is a manual device that allows the user to collect a laboratoryready midstream sample comfortably into a tube that is compatible with automated urinalysis equipment. This removes the need for decanting urine and eliminates any unnecessary post-collection handling and the resulting risk of contamination or false positives. It is especially valuable in antenatal services, where urine testing is a regular and important part of the maternity patient pathway. We pitched Peezy Midstream to the Eastern AHSN Innovation Review Panel in October 2020, which allowed us to highlight the impact it has on reducing urine contamination rates. We received valuable feedback from this expert and Rubbish in, rubbish out. If you dont get the right specimen, all the clever work done in the lab wont work Mark Wilks, Microbiologist, Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust diverse group of NHS subject matter experts. The panel agreed that Peezy Midstream need to reduce specimen contamination. We were invited to present at both Eastern AHSNs clinical innovations forum event and an innovation-matching event with stakeholders from NHS clinical commissioning groups across the region, delivered in partnership with PrescQIPP. We expect our work with Eastern AHSN to accelerate the adoption and spread of Peezy Midstream across England, including the establishment of evaluations in more NHS primary care settings in 2021. We also hope it will be able to help us develop our key messages and communications strategy to strengthen our voice to buyers, How to use Peezy Midstream Share this article We are already growing quickly in the USA, with a number of agreements and sales in place. We still want to ensure we can continue to deliver impact within the NHS Great ideas wanted Do you have a great idea that could make a positive health impact? Get involved.