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Prostate Progress – Information for Healthcare Professionals
We at Prostate Cancer Research wanted to let you know about an important development regarding Prostate Progress, our patient information register. From now and over the coming months, all individuals identified through NHS records as having a diagnosis of prostate...
National survey highlights women’s lived experience of UTI and the importance of getting diagnosis right
Survey highlights the burden of recurrent UTI, inconsistent urine sample collection and concerns about diagnosis, antibiotic treatment and being heard. London, 20 August 2026 – Analysis of a national survey exploring women’s experiences of acute urinary tract infection (UTI) diagnosis...
Government says continence care should be based on need, not arbitrary limits
NHS trusts have come under fresh pressure to end arbitrary restrictions on the numbers of absorbent continence products supplied to patients after ministers reiterated that continence care should be based on clinical need and uphold patients' dignity. The Department of...
University of Birmingham and Nonacus win national award for pioneering at-home bladder cancer test
University of Birmingham researchers and Birmingham cancer testing company Nonacus have won a national Medilink award for their work on GALEAS Bladder, a non-invasive urine test now being used by NHS patients. They received the Partnership between Academia and Business...
New survey explores the everyday impact of living with BPE
Prostate Scotland has launched a new national survey exploring the everyday impact of living with benign prostatic enlargement (BPE). It aims to build one of the clearest pictures to date of what it's really like to live with BPE in...
MPs urge government to end continence pad ‘rationing’ after trusts found limiting supplies
A group of MPs have called on the government to intervene over what they describe as the “rationing” of continence products across the NHS, warning that thousands of patients are being left without adequate support and may be costing the...
NHS hospitals adopt GALEAS Bladder: a faster, more accurate at-home bladder cancer test
NHS hospitals are using a new way of testing for bladder cancer that is fast, accurate and convenient for patients, as profiled in The Guardian on 8 June 2026. GALEAS Bladder is enabling NHS hospitals to reduce procedures so cystoscopy...
Mount Sinai Urology Chair Receives Honorary Fellowship From Prestigious Royal College
Ash K. Tewari, MBBS, MCh, FRCS (Hon.), DSc (Hon.), Chair of the Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and Director of the Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer at the...
Children left waiting up to two years for NHS continence care, new data reveals
Children with bladder and bowel conditions are waiting months – and in some cases years – for specialist NHS support, as overstretched continence services struggle to meet rising demand, new Freedom of Information (FOI) data reveals. FOI responses from more...
Poster Presentations for the ERIC Conference 2026
ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity, are pleased to be hosting this year’s ERIC Conference for healthcare professionals, at The Grand Hotel in Bristol on 12 October 2026. The theme: Together for 35 years: leading change in paediatric bowel...
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Urinary Tract Infections
3 March 2026 / London Susannah La-Touche, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Clinical Director of Undergraduate Surgery. On 3 March 2026, via the echoing maze-like hallways of Westminster, a small group convened for the first Meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on...
DUS Annual Meeting 2025 – a story from Nyborg Strand
13–15 November 2025 / Funen, Denmark Naomi Nadler, Urology Resident; Rose Laursen, Urology Resident; and Stine Hedegaard, Consultant Urologist, Department of Urology, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark. Every November, the urological community of Denmark migrates to the central island Funen...
