Surgeon invents plastic-reducing urine collection pot

A hospital specialist has invented a new product that manages to reduce plastic and simplify the process of testing urine.

Consultant urologist Dr Nick Burns-Cox has been working on his own innovation, the Pee-In-Pot (PiP) for 10 years.

Made from bamboo and sugar cane, it removes four items from the current urine collection process, three of them plastic.

Mr Burns-Cox, who works at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, said he hoped it would cut down the use of single-use plastic in the NHS and reduce the chance of errors.