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EAU Guidelines App

The European Association of Urology (EAU) continues to lead on the latest guidelines within urology. The all new EAU guidelines app brings together the pocket version of the EAU guidelines with a much improved user interface. Both the cancer and...

NICE backs laser for BPH

Benign prostatic hyperplasia affects 60% of men aged 60 or over. The medical technology division of the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) has supported the GreenLight XPS laser system as a surgical tool. The specific indications are:...

Junior doctors’ strike: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Most urology departments will be affected one way or another by the ongoing industrial action by our junior colleagues. This article gives an interview between the BMJ team and Jeremy Hunt, UK Secretary of State for Health. We may or...

BPS – a diagnostic enigma

This article from a London teaching hospital presents the results of a Medline search about challenges in bladder pain syndrome. All the known definitions from the American Urological Association (AUA), European Association of Urology (EAU), etc. are given while the...

Urolink: past, present, future

The mission of Urolink, a sub-committee of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) since 1996, has been: “To promote and encourage the provision of appropriate urological expertise and education worldwide, with particular emphasis on the materially disadvantaged.” The importance...

Ketamine-Induced Uropathy: Emerging Challenges and Effective Interventions

Ketamine‑induced uropathy (KIU) has rapidly become one of the most urgent and complex bladder health challenges facing clinicians across the UK. With cases rising sharply among young people and frontline services under increasing pressure, our Bladder Health UK study day...

Urodynamics - A new multi-society educational resource for patients

Urodynamics is often poorly understood by patients, which contributes to anticipatory anxiety about the experience and misconceptions about its purpose. Current patient-facing educational resources on this topic (e.g., YouTube videos) have a number of shortcomings in terms of quality, accuracy,...

ABC (Action Bladder Cancer) UK Annual Nurses Education Day: Understanding Bladder Cancer and the Latest Developments

Action Bladder Cancer UK is holding its next annual Nurses’ Education Day for Urology Nurses and Clinical Nurse Specialists in Birmingham on Friday 5th September 2025. This is ABC UK’s fourth full day education event for nurses, following the success...

ABC (Action Bladder Cancer) UK Setting up a support group for your patients - A guide for urology and cancer nurses working with bladder cancer patients

ABC UK are running an online Zoom session on Monday 18th August at 6:30pm, which is being run in response to requests from urology and cancer nurses, on how to set up and run a successful patient support group. There...

Urodynamics – A quick pocket guide

This is an absolute requisite of a book for anyone in urology whatever their stage of development. For the experienced it provides some useful teaching tips and for the beginner even a cursory read will make you feel like a...

In conversation with Ian Pearce

We were delighted to catch up with our old friend, Ian Pearce, former Editor of Urology News and new President of BAUS. Can you tell us a little bit about what led you into the field of urology and the...