The PiP offers you a means of simplifying the process for collecting a mid-stream urine specimen, as a rough guide for every thousand in-patient beds a provider of care will carry out somewhere in the region of twenty one thousand mid-stream urine tests a year as a minimum. The process is often highly variable and so we offer an opportunity to standardise that process in a more sustainable way.
Materials
The PiP is manufactured from a blend of sugar cane pulp and bamboo fibre and is specially designed to facilitate midstream urine sampling. It can simply be macerated after single use (PAS 29:1999 accredited). It is registered as a class one in-vitro diagnostic device and is UK CA marked.
Carbon Impact Saving
The carbon impact savings are significant – being at least a 78% saving in carbon emissions. This was done by analysing current best practice versus the PiP and both Greener NHS and Supply Chain bodies are supportive of its adoption. Your procurement team will have the product ordering code.
Cost Savings
Switching to the PiP doesn’t just improve the urine collection process, it can also help you save money in ways you might not expect.
By replacing multiple single use plastic items currently used in the midstream urine collection process, you can reduce both consumable costs and waste disposal expenses. Since the PiP is maceratable, it can be disposed of more efficiently, potentially lowering your incineration costs.
There are also indirect savings. Health Care Assistants (HCAs) find the PiP process quicker and easier to carry out, freeing up valuable time that can be redirected to patient-facing care. In the laboratory, if your team currently pipettes urine from one container to another (e.g. into boric acid tubes), the PiP can streamline this step too, allowing Medical Laboratory Scientists to focus on other essential tasks.