Urological Cancer
Three of the most common cancers (prostate, bladder and testis) fall within the remit of urologists.
The overall management of patients with urological cancers is very much a team effort involving urologists, radiologists,...
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Training As A Parent
Training as a father
Jonathan Noel, former BSoT Chair and trainee in the London North Deanery, writes about combining training with fatherhood:
My wife and I have been blessed with a son when I was an ST3,...
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Evidence Based Interventions (EBI)
Implementation of urology clinical guidance
The EBI programme is an initiative led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) to improve the quality of care. The programme is supported by five...
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COVID-19: Information for Members
We face unprecedented challenges in the light of the coronavirus pandemic. This has wide–ranging implications on all areas of our practice, as well as for our working and personal lives.
BAUS has been...
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BOOMERANG Audit
British Audit Of the InvestigatiOn & Referral of WoMen with REcurrent URinary TrAct InfectioN Using Recent Guidance
Urinary tract infections (UTI) affect more than 400 million people globally. In the UK 50-80% of women will...
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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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The London South region is bounded by the River Thames and the M25 motorway and forms part of the London School of Surgery.
The full kaleidoscope of core and subspecialist urology is available within the region, with three teaching...
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Clinical leads for GIRFT urology
The clinical leads for the GIRFT urology workstream have recently been working on the programme of re-visiting trusts.
Mr Kieran O’Flynn, Consultant Urological Surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust...
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BAUS Research Priorities
BAUS has compiled a basic list of urological research priorities which is shown below. If you wish to add anything to this list, please contact us by e-mail.
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BAUS Research Priorities
The Section has composed a basic list of urological research priorities. If you wish to add anything to this list, please contact the Section by clicking here or by using the "Contact" link on the menu...
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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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Economic evaluation of urinary biomarkers and photodynamic diagnosis
The Aberdeen Health Economics Research Unit has produced a briefing paper on "The Economic Evaluation of Urinary Biomarkers and Cystoscopy with Photodynamic Diagnosis and...
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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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The first concept of using coherent fibre-optical bundles to transmit images, ie. the ‘Fibrescope’ was devised by Harold H Hopkins and reported in 1954 1. Following this, fibreoptic endoscopes were in routine use in gastroenterology by the late...
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Shining a light into the bladder, so that its reflection allowed the interior to be visualised, was the very basis of the cystoscope.
Subsequent developments in the generation, focussing and amplification of light allowed the cystoscope to...
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"Things in a place they shouldn't be!" A joint exhibition with the EAU History Office
Every urologist has stories of objects inserted into the urethra and bladder, which they have been obliged to remove. This is not, of course, a modern...
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Edward Canny Ryall was an Irish urologist working in London in the early 20th century at All Saint's Hospital, London.
Canny Ryall funded the building of All Saint's Hospital out of his own pocket. He was particularly interested in the...
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James Barlow Macalpine was born on 11th February 1882 in Accrington, the son of the wealthy colliery owner Sir George Macalpine. He was schooled at Mill Hill and then qualified in medicine from Manchester in 1907. He was House Surgeon at Manchester...
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John William Thomson-Walker was born in Newport, Fife. He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1894 before going to Vienna for postgraduate study.
He worked with Edwin Hurry Fenwick at St...
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The 1966 Punch Club meeting was hosted by George Harrison in Derby.
A 1966 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 2 convertible - an iconic car built in Derby
Members were accommodated at the Midland Hotel, Derby. The scientific presentations took...
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The 1984 Punch Club meeting was hosted by George Harrison in Derby. This was the second meeting hosted by George - his first being in 1966 - and it marked his withdrawal from the Club.
The tradition at that time was that members who retired would...
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This medal was issued by the Portuguese Urological Association at their 1995 meeting held in Porto.
The Portuguese Urological Association was founded in 1923, with Dr Arthur Ravara as its first president. Ravara (1873 - 1937) was the founder of...
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1904 - 1998
Denis Poole-Wilson (1904 – 1998) was an outstanding urologist of the post-war years. He qualified in 1928 and in 1930 took his first post in Manchester, under Geoffrey Jefferson, the neurosurgeon at the Salford Royal Hospital. But...
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