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 a 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 expreience 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 Andrerson, 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 platfom 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.
Read PCNL and Urethroplasty workshop report Read USE 4th Annual Meeting report
Read 2nd Emergency Urology Skills Bootcamp report
APRIL 2025
 Rustam Karanjia successfully completed the 2025 London Marathon raising over £2,000 for Urolink. Rustam got round in 3 hours 50 minutes, a fantastic achievement on such a warm day. I'm sure we all send him our congratulations on doing this and for raising so much money for us. It's not too late to donate, so if you feel you want to contribute donations can still be made by going directly to Rustam's page by clicking here. Alternatively you can donate by clicking the Urolink logo to the right, which takes you to the BAUS Just Giving page. If you use that route, then pleased don't forget to specify that your donation is specifically for Urolink.
APRIL 2025
Read Johann Boaz's,TUF Urolink Fellowship Report about his trip to  the 1st UROLAP Laparoscopic Urology Workshop at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana between 23-27th September 2024. Accompanied by Zeeshan Aslam, from Aberdeen, Elsie Mensah, from Guys Hospital, and Ali Thwaini, from the UAE, the team set about a a week-long, intense, hands-on workshop at this first visit, to be followed by workshops running every 6-12 months to consolidate until the unit was independent. Johann gained an enormous amount from this visit, learned just how different training and practice can be in LMICs and how they differ from his experience training in London.
Read Johann's report Watch the Video from the Korle Bu workshop
APRIL 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025/26 TUF Urolink fellowships. TUF continues to support UK trainees who are BAUS members with this opportunity to get involved with a Urolink project across sub-Saharan Africa. Each fellowship attracts a £1,500 bursary towards the cost of travel, and a period of time in a Urolink recognised centre. There are four fellowships available and the deadline for applications is Friday 30th May.
....or apply via the TUF website
MARCH 2025
 
Urolink are also delighted to announce this month that Mary Suphi, BAUS CEO, and the team at BAUS have registered the BAUS charity on the "Just Giving" platform to facilitate donations to help with Urolink's activities.
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