 | The Deanery serves a population of 5 million, ranging from a large number of inner-city conurbations with a multi-cultural population to rural communities in the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District. Medical schools in the Deanery include Leeds & Bradford Medical School, Hull York Medical School and Sheffield Medical School. Most of our hospitals are within easy reach of the Yorkshire Dales, the Pennines, the Peak District and the Lake District. There is an extensive motorway network and rail links serving the rest of the country. There is a wide range of cultural and sporting activities available and the opportunity to visit many historic sites within the region. |
South Yorkshire
Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 420,000 from a wide geographical area including the eastern half of South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire. The Trust is made up of four hospitals and is served by the urology department at all four sites: The Montagu Mexborough (providing outpatient and day case surgery), Doncaster Royal Infirmary (housing the main urology unit, day case and major inpatient work), Bassetlaw District General Hospital Worksop (providing diagnostic, day case and core in-patient surgery) and Retford Hospital (outpatient only).
The Consultants below provide a full range of core urological services, which are complemented by subspecialist interests:
- Mr Roger Avill: general urology (Bassetlaw)
- Mr John Leveckis: oncology (In-reaching to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield)
- Mr Jiwan Darrad: general & female urology
- Mr Kalleshachar Ravishankar: general & stones
- Mr Vivek Kumar: general, reconstruction & female
- Mr Sanjeev Pathak: general, upper tract laparoscopy & stones
The Consultants are supported by two Oncology and two Continence Nurse Specialists, in addition to a dedicated nursing and administrative support team. The department has recognition for the training of two SpRs who are part of the North Trent rotation.
Rotherham District General Hospital
Rotherham lies east of Sheffield, the two conurbations being adjacent to each other; it is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Rodreham. It is an industrial town known for its iron and steel industry and, more recently, for the drinking exploits of William Hague! Rotherham has excellent public transport links to neighbouring towns and cities, is adjacent to the M1 motorway for easy commuting and the Peak District National Park is only a short drive away.
The General Hospital provides most acute and elective specialties, including urology. The department consists of four Consultants (Mr BT Parys, Mr Z Abassi, Mr I Edhem & Miss B Wilkinson) with an Associate Specialist (Mr A Darshane). The Specialist Registrar is linked to the South Yorkshire rotation, centred on Sheffield. The department provides a full range of services with subspecialisation in laparoscopy, endourology, female urology/reconstruction and andrology.
Click here to see recent publications from the Rotherham urology department.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Sheffield, the fourth largest city in the country, is famous for its steel and cutlery industry. The city offers something for everyone in this part of South Yorkshire. Whether you are looking for walking trails, sporting venues, botanical gardens, shopping, fine dining, Victorian architecture, museums, theatres or even skiing, Sheffield has it all!
The Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust provides over 900,000 appointments and operations every year as well as providing basic science, clinical education and research facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Sheffield is home to two universities - Hallam University and the University of Sheffield; almost 60,000 students attend the city's universities, bringing a vibrant and youthful feel to the city centre.
The Department of Urology is the cancer centre for North Trent. It provides urological services for the 500,000 population of Sheffield and cancer services for the 1 million population within North Trent. The department includes 13 urologists, providing tertiary oncology, endourology, laparoscopy, reconstructive urology and andrology.
There are two main hospitals in the Trust, the Northern General Hospital and the Royal Hallamshire Hospital:
Northern General Hospital
The Northern General Hospital, Sheffield contains the Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre, which is the second largest and oldest in the country. It moved to modern purpose-built accommodation in 1994. The centre has more urology input than any other spinal injuries centre.
The Urology team includes two Consultants, Mr Paul Tophill and Ms Sheilagh Reid, who are supported by specialist nurses. They deal with bladder, bowel, sexual and fertility function in patients with neurological disease, the continuing care of patients with congenital abnormalities of the bladder and associated rectal problems, insertion of artificial urinary sphincters for post-prostatectomy incontinence and some bladder reconstruction in neurologically-normal patients.
There are specialist clinics for transition, kidney stones, urogynaecology and, in addition, close working relationships with nephrology and renal transplantation.
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
The female urology, reconstructive surgery & neuro-urology team has a dedicated session for video-urodynamics and ambulatory studies. It routinely performs minimally-invasive incontinence procedures, complex urogenital fistula surgery, urethroplasty (including complicated urethral reconstruction), bladder augmentation, urinary diversions and continent neobladder reconstructive procedures. We investigate and manage neurogenic bladder dysfunction in close association with our colleagues in the Northern General Hospital and we are a tertiary referral centre for artificial urinary sphincter care.
Our endourology service provides shockwave lithotripsy, lasertripsy and percutaneous nephrological procedures to clear urinary tract calculi and upper tract neoplasia.
Our oncology service is a multidisciplinary group combining specialist urological cancer surgeons, radiologists, clinical oncologists, urological cancer nurses and palliative care teams for the management of most urological cancers. There is specific expertise for dealing with conventional & complex cancers of the kidney, bladder, prostate and testis. The team also provides advanced surgical expertise for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex or advanced pelvic cancer of gynaecological, large bowel and sarcomatous origin. There is close liaison with Weston Park Hospital which has a purpose-built Cancer Research Centre, one of only three dedicated cancer hospitals in the country.
The andrology team investigates and offers a range of medical and surgical treatments for erectile dysfunction.
The Academic Urology Unit was established in Sheffield in 1999 and has a dedicated team of specialists who undertake active research into prostate and bladder cancer, tissue engineering, BPH and dysfunctional bladder conditions, with local and international collaboration. It has been actively involved in urological research over the past 15 years and has raised £20 million of peer-reviewed research income. The faculty currently includes two senior academics, one NIHR-funded Clinical Lecturer and two academic clinical fellows. It is one of the largest academic urology units in the UK.
We work closely with colleagues in the Sheffield Kidney Institute (proving nephrology & renal transplantation), Jessop's Hospital for Women (providing incontinence surgery), the Sheffield Fertility Centre and the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
Click here to see recent publications from the Sheffield urology departments.
Yorkshire & Humberside
Airedale Hospital, Keighley
Airedale hospital has been cited as the best small trust in the country in a report by Dr Foster Intelligence and has recently been awarded Foundation Trust status. Airedale is situated in the Yorkshire Dales in beautiful surroundings. It is a cancer unit and has a close working relationship with the regional cancer centre in Bradford.
The trainees get exposure to core urology, upper tract uro-oncology, stone management, uro-gynaecology and some paediatric urology. There is an excellent percutaneous stone service and Airedale is extremely popular with the trainees.
Bradford Royal Infirmary
Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides acute services for the city of Bradford and surrounding areas and has two large hospitals - Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital. All main specialties are represented in Bradford and the Trust has a bed base of 1055.
The Trust is the designated cancer centre for the West Yorkshire region. The urology department has 5 fulltime Consultants and 1 part-time Consultant. Trainees are able to tailor their job plan to take advantage of the full range of training opportunities including endourology, laparoscopy, uro-oncology, andrology, female urology and reconstructive urology.
Bradford Royal Infirmary has a new state-of-the-art lecture theatre and a surgical skills laboratory equipped with laparoscopic simulators.
Castle Hill Hospital, Hull
Castle Hill Hospital is part of the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and, situated on the west side of Hull, is easily accessible from the M62. There has been significant expansion of the site in recent years with new cardiothoracic, upper GI, cancer and day surgery facilities. All elective cancer surgery in the Trust is performed at Castle Hill Hospital, apart from neurosurgery which is based at Hull Royal Infirmary.
The Urology Department serves a local population of around 600,000, from Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Within the local population, there are pockets of significant deprivation (especially around Hull), contrasting with areas of relative affluence within the East Riding. As the cancer centre of the Humber and Yorkshire Coast Cancer Network we serve a larger tertiary population of 1.1 million from north east Lincolnshire and north Yorkshire. There are five Consultants and one Associate Specialist within the department.
Ward 15 at Castle Hill Hospital is a purpose-built, 40-bedded urology ward with an adjacent day unit for nursing clinics, urodynamics and flexible cystoscopy; we also have an on-site lithotripter. All pelvic cancer surgery (open and laparoscopic) within the cancer network is performed on the Castle Hill site in addition to upper tract laparoscopy, endourology, female urology, infertility and general urological procedures. There are 14 elective inpatient operating lists per week in the urology theatres in addition to 4 day surgery lists with ample opportunities in operative urological exposure for our trainees.
We work closely with our radiology and oncology colleagues, who are based in a new state-of-the-art cancer centre on the Castle Hill Site and we have good teaching links with the new Hull York Medical School as well as research links with the University of York.
Click here to see recent publications from the Hull unit.
Harrogate District Hospital
Awaiting information from this unit. No details have been supplied by the local urologists.
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Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
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Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield
Pinderfields Hospital is part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, based centrally in Wakefield. During 2010 a brand new, state-of-the-art hospital will open, offering improved facilities and services for patients and staff. Included in the new buildings is a stand-alone, purpose-designed education centre, complete with 180-seat tiered lecture theatre, seminar rooms and a range of clinical skills labs. This centre is earmarked to be the site of regional urological and surgical simulation training, using the most up-to-date simulation equipment. Trainees will have exposure to core urology as well as uro-oncology, advanced laparoscopy, urogynaecology, advanced neuro-urology, reconstruction and stone management.
The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has close working links with the Regional Postgraduate Deanery team and is an Associated Teaching Hospital with the University of Leeds Medical School, demonstrating a real commitment to teaching at every level.
Click here to see recent publications from the Wakefield unit.
St James's University Hospital, Leeds
After decades of industrial decline, Leeds was re-invented in the 1990s, overtaking Edinburgh as the UK's second-largest financial centre in the 2000s. It is now a vibrant and culturally-rich city.
The Pyrah Department of Urology at St James' University Hospital Leeds offers comprehensive care to the population of Leeds. Additionally, specialist regional and supra-regional oncology multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and the urolithiasis MDT provide tertiary and quaternary services for West / North Yorkshire and Humber. The Leeds teaching hospitals also provide tertiary reconstructive and female urology. As a result, St.James' is a high-volume centre for all major urological procedures. Laparoscopic and robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery is available for all major oncological interventions.
St James' is the hub of the Yorkshire & Humber higher training scheme in Urology. High volumes of clinical material offer urological trainees in Leeds outstanding training opportunities. Currently, post-fellowship training in endourology is also offered and, shortly, post-fellowship uro-oncology and female urology fellowships will also be available.
Click here to see recent publications from the St James's unit.
York Teaching Hospital
The department of urology at York Hospital is staffed by four Consultant Urologists, two Specialist Registrars, three Specialist Nurses & a full support team. The department offers a comprehensive general urological service whilst also offering laparoscopic nephrectomy, a stone service with PCNL/flexible ureteroscopy and specialist incontinence surgery. The department has close links with the University of York, both at undergraduate and research level, and with Hull/York Medical School.
There are also close links with Leeds for specialist surgical, medical & radiation oncology services, and all cancer cases are discussed at a weekly MDT.
