Prior to 1980, surgeons had been struggling to provide a catheterisable, continent channel as an alternative to the native urethra, primarily for paediatric patients with...
Educational theories: how familiar are we with these theories and their application in our training? As a Simulation Fellow I have been involved in teaching...
In May/June 2016 we featured a wonderful account of Zeeshan Aslam’s first trip with Urolink to the Hawassa Referral Hospital in Ethiopia (see here). One...
Introduction Nocturnal enuresis is the complaint of bedwetting. The 2010 National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines define bedwetting as the “involuntary wetting...
There has been so much recent discussion and so much emphasis placed on the fundamental right that we all have to determine what is or...
It is estimated that daytime wetting affects one in seventy-five children over the age of five years [1]. Daytime wetting is commoner in younger children...
Research is the process of acquiring new generalisable knowledge and should be fully integrated into healthcare work. There is a growing drive to encourage and...
“We need a system and we will surely have it - which will produce not only surgeons, but surgeons of the highest type” William Halsted...
Good time management is thought to not only reduce stress, but to improve personal efficiency, service delivery, clinical effectiveness and patient care. It was Benjamin...
Background The year was 2004; I had just moved to the UK as a young house officer and finished my observership programme at Great Ormond...
The physician associate (PA) is a new role in the NHS which has expanded across medical and surgical specialties to include urology. In the USA,...
The NHS and urology face challenging times in trying to provide quality patient care efficiently and economically. Urology trainees are experiencing conflicting pressures with a...