PeePod®

Redistributed manufacturing of home use medical

devices: a case study

The team…

PI: Michael Drinnan, NUTH Costanzo Di Maria, NUTH Javier Munguia, NCL Mike Whitaker, NUTH

Alison Bray, NUTH Yi Zhang, NCL Thomas Honey, NCL

1 in 3 men suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms

The result is of variable quality, or not completed at all

The result is useful, but may be unrepresentative, and some men are unable to ‘perform’

The Urology and Medical Physics departments at Newcastle Hospitals invented the PeePod®: a single-

patient-use (multiple uses per patient) automated voiding diary and home flowmeter

The original PeePod® project was...

The device is now licensed to Medical Medical Systems (recently acquired by Laborie) as…

Mechanical components (load beam)

Electronics

Plastic housing

Batteries

Fixtures

Wiring

It consists of…

Manufacturing and distribution…

…some parts originate in China…

…and are shipped to our commercial partner…

…devices are sold and shipped to distributors…

…who sell and ship to hospitals…

…who provide to patients…

…if devices are reprocessed, the whole process also reverses…

Can we explore alternative ways to make it…

• Readily accessible to GP’s patients –manufacture at point of sale

• Comply with current standards and quality requirements moving away from traditional manufacturing

• Incorporate design changes/updates without disrupting the whole supply chain

• Smaller carbon footprint resulting from reduce transport/shipping

• Make it more economical for healthcare systems to obtain

Warping

Support structures

Stair stepping

Delamination

RDM