BAUS Snapshot Audits
Projects starting in 2020
BAUS undertook two snapshot audits in 2020.
First, an audit of surgery for bladder outflow obstruction (BOO) with individual unit feedback sent out in early November 2020. National data from...
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Educational Resources on the BAUS Website
To categorise educational resources into individual groups is almost impossible because many resources go across a number of boundaries. Therefore, this page simply contains a listing of areas on the...
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Information About BAUS Membership
Thank you for your interest in applying for membership of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
Membership of BAUS is open to any medical practitioner in urological practice interested in...
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Urological Careers
The aim of this area is to provide career-based information for urologists in the workforce, whatever their grade.
This section covers issues relevant to your health and welfare at work, equality, diversity and...
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E-Learning
BAUS has launched four groups of webinars, each with a different educational lead, to help meet education needs across the whole spectrum of BAUS membership. These webinars are for healthcare professionals only.
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About Urolink
Urolink's mission is ...
... to promote and encourage the provision of appropriate urological expertise and education worldwide, with particular emphasis on the materially disadvantaged ...
Timelines...
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Our commitment to a greener future
Sustainability has become a defining priority across the NHS in recent times, and urology has an important role to play in reducing its environmental impact while continuing to deliver the highest standards...
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BAUS Section of Trainees (BSoT)
The Section of Trainees was formed was formed over 30 years ago as the Specialist Urology Registrars' Group (SURG), with the aim of promoting “high standards in the practice of the science of urology”.
Our...
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BAUS-led vacancies
Post-CCT Fellowship Lead
The overarching ambition is to make the UK the best place in the world to undertake a urology fellowship, while developing structured, equitable and internationally recognized...
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The start of the academic year seems like a good moment both to reflect on the year gone, and to update members on plans for the year ahead at BAUS. For understandable reasons (too many to detail here), it’s been a year that many will simply want to...
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Another year draws to a close and, once again, talk around our hospitals is dominated by COVID and all its attendant uncertainties.
Inevitably, your President asks himself whether a membership will at this time have any interest in what is...
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The clocks have changed, Easter approaches, the vaccination programme continues at pace and so, with that slightly more optimistic background, I thought it a good time to update you on work being carried out on your behalf at BAUS - work that should...
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With Christmas approaching as this "year of years" draws to a close, it seems a good time to write to all BAUS members to reflect on the last few months, to give you an update on where the organisation stands and to point you to what we have planned...
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As we approach the end of the year, I thought that I would write to provide a summary of events since my last newsletter, and highlight a few issues for 2020.
Once again, we had an excellent annual meeting in Glasgow in June with lots of positive...
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I hope that this “ex-chair” newsletter finds you well, that 2022 is already looking more favourable than the last two years have been for us all, and that it will continue to develop into a happy, healthy and productive year for you and your...
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As the clocks have gone forward, lockdown is easing, and we look forward to spring and trying to get back to some sense of normality with all aspects of our lives, this seemed like the perfect time to update you with the current work of your BAUS...
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BAUS, in collaboration with ITN Productions Industry News, is launching an original, news-format, bespoke co-production that raises awareness and understanding of the role of urological professionals and explores the pioneering surgical techniques...
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The British Association of Urological Surgeons aligns with Prostate Cancer UK in declaring that men do not need a 'finger up the bum’ to test for prostate cancer.
Despite this, new data shows a third of men surveyed were still being...
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The following information about enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) is now available, prepared by the BAUS ERP Group and approved by BAUS Council (with a foreword by Mr Mark Speakman, President of BAUS).
General information about...
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from male menopause
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from kidney stones
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from incontinence of urine
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from prostate symptoms
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from premature ejaculation
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Information and guidance for patients suffering from blood in the semen (haematospermia).
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from erectile dysfunction (impotence)
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from fertility problems
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from a testicular lump
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Information and guidance from BAUS for patients suffering from blood in the urine (haematuria)
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The 2018 BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting took place from 25 to 27 June 2018 at the BT Convention Centre (pictured upper right), Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront.
View the introiductory video
President's Welcome
BAUS President, Mr...
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A message from Mary Garthwaite, BAUS Virtual Art Gallery Curator and former Consultant Urological Surgeon:
The theme for this year's photographic competition was 'A NEW PERSPECTIVE'.
We have travelled a long way since this time last year....
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A message from Mary Garthwaite, BAUS Virtual Art Gallery Curator, former Consultant Urologist & TUF Trustee
Entries for the BAUS photographic competition 2023 have now been judged and the winner announced - all submissions can be viewed below...
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Introduction & Welcome from The Junior Curator
Hello, everyone. My name is Harriet Goddard and I'm the Junior Curator here.
My father, Jonathan Goddard, is a Consultant Urological Surgeon and Curator of the BAUS Virtual Museum of...
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From animal extracts to gene therapy & receptor-specific treatments
Reading advertisements and watching the mainstream media today, you could be forgiven for thinking that ED was a 20th century invention, but nothing could be further from...
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"There are few more crippling disabilities than complete incontinence of urine. Not only does the victim suffer considerable physical inconvenience, or even misery, but there is that harder cross to bear - mental anguish."
Terence Millin,...
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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ABERCROMBIE (Abercrombie "snatch")
George Forbes Abercrombie (1935 - 2017) was born in Edinburgh. He trained...
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From open implantation of radioactive implants, hazardous for patient & surgeon, to minimally-invasive bladder removal & targeted treatment
In 1895, Ludwig Rehn used a cystoscope to identify bladder cancer in 3 of 45 workers at a dye...
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From hormone treatment with limited efficacy to artificial insemination, sperm retrieval & storage, assisted conception and in vitro fertilisation
Since ancient times, humans have wondered about the miracle of procreation; scientists and...
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From long-stay open surgery using large incisions to day-case endoluminal laser "dusting"
When BAUS began 80 years ago, Victor Dix, a Professor of Surgery was said to be a noted expert in the management of ureteric stones, a skill he had...
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