AUGUST 2025
 Congratulations to Mayur Gaumi, ST4 Urology registrar and Global Health fellow, for winning the Cambridge Global Health Partnerships poster competition. Mayur highlighted the work of Urolink and Cambridge Global Health Partnership in collaboration with Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi building a service for urinary incontinence. Their visit included teaching for bulkamid, pubovaginal sling, clam cystoplasty and vesico-vaginal fistula repair. Read more about the visit through the visit report.
Urogynae workshop report
JUNE 2025
 It was a pleasure to see so many people at this year's BAUS Annual  Scientific meeting in Manchester where we had 3 great lectures including one by Charles Mabedi, from Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, who told us about the progress there has been in the COSECSA examination process and how this had improved the quality of the standing of the FCS ECSA. A video of the meeting will be available in the Publications section shortly. The meeting was also an opportunity for Rebecca Porta, the Chief Executive of The Urological Foundation, to announce the winners of the TUF/Urolink Fellowships for 2025. After robust, anonymised, scoring across 5 domains by the members of the Urolink Executive we were delighted to see that Nikita Bhatt (Newcastle), Rustam Karanjia (Camberley), Lap Yan Leung (Croydon) and Katie Mallalieu (Wellington) were all awarded Fellowships. Congraulations to them all. We are also excited to announce a BAUS/Urolink Fellowship, worth £6,000, that will be advertised in September. This will be awarded to applicants from outside the UK, who have associations with Urolink, so that they can travel to the BAUS ASM and spend some time gaining experience in an area of urology that they want to learn more about.
JUNE 2025
Urolink have updated the personal survival guide. For anyone planning a visit to a low or low-middle income country this offers some helpful tips on kit to take with you and, importantly, how to deploy your mosquito net.
JUNE 2025
 Supported by BJUI Paul Anderson, Shekhar Biyani, Will Finch and Steve Payne travelled to Hawassa University Comprehensive Surgical Hospital in Ethiopia for a PCNL and Urethroplasty workshop in May 2025. Despite the current challenges in Ethiopia, that are having a significant impact on healthcare provision, the team had a successful visit. Over three days 6 stone and 6 reconstructive surgeries were completed. Following on from the workshop, Shekhar Biyani, Will Finch and Steve Payne then attended the Urology Society of Ethiopia (USE) 4th Annual Meeting in Addis Ababa. The theme of the meeting was 'Forging external links for sustainable Urology Services'. This was an ideal platform to demonstrate the success of the link between HUSCH and Urolink. After the conference they then became part of the faculty for the 2nd Emergency Urology Skills Bootcamp in Ethiopia which offered 12 residents the opportunity to develop their practical skills in ureteric anastomosis and reimplantation, boari flap, bladder repair, scrotal exploration, priapism and penile fracture. A very busy but successful week for the team.
PCNL and Urethroplasty workshop report USE 4th Annual Meeting report
2nd Emergency Urology Skills Bootcamp report
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