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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Please note: This page is intended for healthcare professionals only. It is designed as a general educational guide and does not replace local guidance, senior clinical advice, or individual clinical judgement. Patients should not use this page...
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BAUS Data & Audit Programme
BAUS Registries
Data collection for nephrectomy, radical prostatectomy, cystectomy, PCNL and urethroplasty closed on 31 December 2019. Summary data is available on request. Individual surgeons and unit level...
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD is defined as the education of health care professionals following completion of formal training. CPD consists of any educational activity which helps to maintain, develop or increase knowledge,...
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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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Members Privacy Notice
If you are a member of BAUS you have provided personal information which we retain and use, having regard to relevant data protection legislation.
The information you provide during your membership application will...
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UK Urologists Working Abroad
The Urolink faculty welcomes members to visit established centres, discussion about the logistics of setting up a new link, and encourages collaboration with other interested parties to share resources and...
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Sub-Specialty Training
BSoT believes firmly that all urology trainees should have some exposure to sub-specialist urology during their training.
The headings below provide further information about training in these sub-specialist areas,...
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Contacting The British Association of Urological Surgeons
The BAUS offices are located in the recently refurbished Royal College of Surgeons, London (pictured above)
PLEASE NOTE: staff at the BAUS offices are not medically trained and...
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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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BAUS is aware of the “period of high vigilance restriction” regarding vaginal mesh surgery that has now been recommended by the Cumberlege review, mirrored on the UK Parliament website.
We welcome any recommendations that will help establish...
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Two new clinical leads have been appointed to lead the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) urology workstream as the programme prepares to begin re-visits to trusts.
Kieran O’Flynn, Consultant Urological Surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation...
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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...
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Urological trauma is rare: the incidence of severe urethral trauma is 1 per million of the population per year.
The majority of urological injuries are due to blunt, high-energy trauma, often with associated multi-system injuries, and 80% of...
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Everyone now realises that there will be no quick return to the pre-COVID-19 ways of working, and that some changes in practice will be permanent. The Getting It Right First Time programme team has been asked by NHSE/I to collate examples of new...
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From open surgery and several weeks in hospital to day-case laser surgery or relief of symptoms in an outpatient setting
Transurethral resection of the prostate, TURP, is one of the operations that defines urology,but, although it was...
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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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Once considered a rare disease, now the most common cancer in men
One hundred and seventy two years ago, Dr J Adams, a surgeon at The London Hospital in Whitechapel, reported a case of prostate cancer. Adams described in his report in the...
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This stone crusher was invented by a man named Sir Henry Thompson (pictured right). He was an amazing man and people called him a "polymath" (someone who knows lots about a wide variety of things).
The instrument below is called a lithotrite...
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Over the last year, here at the BAUS Museum of Urology, we have been reflecting on the changes that have taken place in the field of urology and in urological surgery over time - and, in particular, since the formation of BAUS in 1945, 80 years...
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William (Bill) Forbes Hendry died on 3 October 2012. He was one of the UK's most influential urologists in the 1980s and 1990s. He was President of BAUS from 1996 to 1998 and was a St Peter's Medallist in 1999. He was joint editor of the BJU with...
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Before the Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations, there were no written records, so what we know about diseases and their treatment during prehistoric times has been gleaned either from archaeological evidence, or from interviews with aboriginals...
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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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The 1991 Punch Club meeting was hosted by Keith Parsons in Liverpool from 16 to 18 October.
Members were accommodated at St George's Hotel, in the centre of Liverpool, from where they were transported on the evening of 16 October to Keith &...
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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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