Patients & Urological Activity
This part of the workforce website aims to help provide data that may be useful in departmental or strategic planning of your urological service. You may wish to compare global NHS activity with that in other...
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FRU Audits
BAUS Snapshot Audits
BAUS snapshot audits are UK-wide audits, designed to evaluate the assessment and management of urological conditions, and to answer specific clinical questions. They provide national data and customised...
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Audits, Guidelines & Publications
BAUS Snapshot Audits
BAUS snapshot audits are UK-wide audits, designed to evaluate the assessment and management of urological conditions, and to answer specific clinical questions. They provide national...
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Neurology
Patients with neurological disease including MS, Parkinsons, stroke and spinal cord injury can develop significant urological problems. This includes problems with bladder management, incontinence and recurrent urinary tract...
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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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This is a retrospective audit to assess BTX-A treatment under LA (in an outpatient setting) & GA (as an inpatient). It looks specifically at what counselling is given about risks & benefits, whether procedure-specific information has been...
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The Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is a national programme designed to improve the quality of care within the NHS by reducing unnecessary variation in services. By sharing good practice and new approaches between trusts, GIRFT...
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FAQs About Stones
All the questions below have been submitted by patients to the Stone Disease Advisory Group.
The answers have been carefully prepared by the Executive Committee of the Endourology Section of BAUS. This body includes patient...
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Medical Student Competition 2026
Micro-Teaching Presentations
Submissions for the 2026 Competition will open on 10 December and will close at midday on 23 February 2026
Objective
Create a short teaching video (maximum 5 minutes) on a...
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Audit / Quality Improvement Competition
Foundation & core trainees are invited each year to submit a report on a urologically based audit /QuIP project of their choice.
The first author of each of the two entries judged to be the best...
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A specialty once regarded as carrying out dangerous, quirky & unjustified procedures has become a vital adjunct to every urological team
Some urologists may recall being summoned from their beds in the early hours of the morning by a request...
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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 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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From catheters, opiates & plants to a receptor-specific treatment tailored to prostate size & symptom severity
In days gone by, the prostate gland was not recognised because, in ancient medical texts, anatomical dissections were rare (and...
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Although the ancient operation of lithotomy establishes the antiquity of urology as a speciality, it is lithotrity that marks the beginning of modern urology. Lithotrity is the treatment of bladder stones by destruction within the bladder and...
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