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Prostate Cancer UK: Faster Diagnosis Standard: Short course (20 weeks long) Deadline 5 Jan 2025 (Free)

27 March 2025 -16 July 2025
You will learn some best practice models and drive change in your Trust, constructing a model with industry experts to deliver a new pathway that works for your patients. Unlock the potential to implement Faster Diagnosis Standards and accelerate diagnosis for men affected by prostate cancer with our free 20-week leadership programme. Guided by expert programme managers, you'll shape and implement your own project and gain crucial leadership and change management skills. We’ll support you from the initial planning stages of your project through to implementation and review.

RCS: Future of Surgery Festival

20 April 2026 -21 April 2026
The Royal College of Surgeons Future of Surgery Festival

Managing Sexual Side Effects After Prostate Cancer: A Patient & Therapist Perspective

20 January 2026
@6:00 - 7.15pm

ERUS25 (22nd Meeting of the EAU Robotic Urology Section)

10 September 2025 -12 September 2025
ERUS25 is Europe’s biggest event dedicated to robotic urology, a highly dynamic meeting that also offers the opportunity to meet colleagues in robotic urology from across the world. The programme of the meeting is focussed on practical instructions on robotic...
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Priapism in children

1 November 2014 | | URO - Paediatrics
I have to state a conflict of interest here for obvious reasons, being one of the authors. This paper reviews the English literature between 1980 and 2013 and summarises the clinical classification, aetiology, physiology and pathophysiology of paediatric priapism –...
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LARP – three instrument techniques to reduce costs

1 November 2016 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
The cost of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LARP) is high because of both the initial installation cost and, more importantly, high running costs. The main reason for the latter is the limited number of usage of the instruments; generally, each instrument...

RSM Paediatric Urology Meeting and Presidential Address 2023

4 March 2024 | | URO - Paediatrics
The academic year of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) started with a bang in October last year with the Paediatric Urology meeting, co-organised by Shabnam Undre (Paediatric Representative for BAUS and Consultant Paediatric Urologist East...

Establishing a new TPPBx service during the COVID-19 pandemic

6 November 2020 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
COVID-19 had a major impact on our hospital services from early in the pandemic, with almost three times as many patients being ventilated compared to the normal ITU capacity at the beginning of April. During the build-up to this point,...

ICS updates in continence care: the role of the nurse continence specialist in continence services

1 November 2016 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
The nurse who specialises in continence care is recognised as a key member of interdisciplinary teams seeking to deliver high quality integrated continence services. The recently published international service specifications for continence care [1] supports the use of specialist continence...

Renal calculi: the role of imaging in pregnancy

5 May 2021 |
Nephrolithiasis is the most common cause of non-obstetric abdominal pain in pregnancy. Accurate diagnosis is imperative as stone related complications can lead to pre-eclampsia, urosepsis, and premature labour [1,2]. In the general population, non-contrast cross sectional imaging is recommended by...

The Mitrofanoff procedure: a continent revolution

1 January 2018 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatrics
Prior to 1980, surgeons had been struggling to provide a catheterisable, continent channel as an alternative to the native urethra, primarily for paediatric patients with congenital neuropathic bladder. In 1980, Professor Paul Mitrofanoff described the continent supravesical antireflux appendicovesicostomy [1]...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy for oligometastatic disease secondary to urological cancer

1 January 2016 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
The concept of oligometastatic disease is controversial. The traditional model of cancer, which most of us learnt at medical school, is of a disease which starts confined to an organ, for example the prostate, where it can be cured with...