Flexible Cystoscopy Guidelines & Assessment

12 December 2017 (Last updated: 14 Jan 2020 10:58)

Flexible cystoscopy is now the most frequently performed urological intervention.

In the late 1990s, the first nurse specialists started to be trained in this technique. Over the intervening years, there has been a gradual change from nurses performing flexible cystoscopy predominantly for the surveillance of superficial bladder cancer, to an enhanced role of diagnostic cystoscopy, including bladder biopsy, cystodiathermy and the removal of ureteric stents.

These documents, first published in 2015, provided clinical guidelines based on the latest available evidence for the appropriate treatment and care of a patient's condition. With the 2017 revisions (see below) now in place, they ensure that patients are treated in a manner that provides safe, competence-based care and are designed to give an overview of the curriculum and of the minimum standards required to perform such procedures.

Guidelines & Assessment Documents

Flexible Cystoscopy: Training & Assessment Guideline
Information about the practicalities of teaching nurse cystoscopy

Flexible Cystoscopy: Performance Criteria, Training & Assessment Logbook
Logbooks & advice on assessing nurses who are learning flexible cystoscopy

Working Party Membership

2012 Guideline Development Group

Pauline Bagnall MA RGN - Chair, Uro-oncology Nurse Specialist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Hilary Baker BSc (Hons) RGN - Secretary, Macmillan Uro-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Annette German, Lead Urology Nurse Specialist, Pennine Acute NHS Trust
Narelle Gregor, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, NHS Lothian
Eileen Hardingham BSc (Hons) RGN, Urology Specialist Nurse, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Karen Kilburn BSc (Hons), Urology Nurse Practitioner / Lead Nurse, North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust
Julia Taylor MSc RGN, Consultant Nurse Urology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Alison Townsend, CNS Urology, Abertawe Bro-Morgannwg University Health Board
Helen Worth MSc RGN, Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Worcestershire Royal Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Fully Reviewed & Revised in 2017

Pauline Bagnall MA RGN - Chair, Uro-oncology Nurse Specialist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Jonathan Borwell, Lead Urology Nurse, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Laurence Clarke BA BCh (Oxon) FRCS (Urol), Consultant Urological Surgeon, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Davis BSc (Hons) RGN SCM, Urology Nurse Practitioner, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Julia Taylor MSc RGN, Consultant Nurse Urology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

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