About this event

  • Date and time Fri 22 Mar 2024 from 8:30am to 5:15pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Urology

This meeting will showcase a whole host of innovative ways of caring for Urology patients, with examples from across the UK. The educational lectures will value the contributions of the whole team and reinforce that well-supportive teams can achieve amazing care for their patients. 

Facilitated discussions and lectures will explain how to plan and deliver excellent care, with real examples from superb multidisciplinary teams.

This event will be co-chaired by Ms. Sarah Hillery, President of the British Association of Urological Nurses, and Ms. Paula Allchorne, President of The European Association of Urology Nurses

It will be one of the few meetings in the UK in 2024 that allows AHP, CNSs, Nurse Consultants, Consultants and Trainees to attend together to share knowledge and innovative care. It aims to be interactive with time for questions and networking. To inspire others to deliver care similarly.   

Participants will learn about: 

  • The dangers of Urosepsis, the risks, and how we can prevent it
  • The advantage of a comprehensive geriatric assessment and how multidisciplinary and speciality care can be delivered from a Leading Geriatrician
  • How to give the best to patients with learning disabilities
  • How multiple nursing teams have delivered excellent care in cancer and benign scenarios in secondary and community care. The themes covered are:
    • Prostate Cancer plus Penile Implants

    • Nephrostomy care

    • Haematuria, Bladder cancer and renal cancer

    • Retention, Catheterisation and catheter removal

    • Bladder Dysfunction

    • Stones

    • On-call, ward care and seminars 

    • Overall organisation

Book to attend this event in person or virtually. To view the rates and agenda, please select your preference below. If you have any questions about the event or need any support booking your place please contact urology@rsm.ac.uk.

 

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We would like to thank our Platinum sponsor Coloplast and our sponsors AbbVie, Accord, Action Bladder Cancer UK, Bladder Health, Close Brothers Asset Management, Consilient Health, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd, Medac Pharma, Optimum Medical and Promed for their support of this meeting.
Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

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Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Professor James Green, President, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Sarah Hillery, President, BAUN and York and Scarborough Gloucestershire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Project: Organisational culture embracing quality improvement

Mrs Julia Taylor, Macmillan Consultant Nurse Urology, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford Care Organisation (part of the Northern Care Alliance)

Advancing andrology

Mrs Claire Arblaster (nee Davies), Lead Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hereford County Hospital, Wye Valley NHS Trust 

Miss Fiona Holden, Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Better care for bladder cancer

Mrs Rebecca Rushton, Nurse Consultant, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Kathryn Chatterton, Bladder Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Guy’s Hospital

Mrs Laura Noble, Bladder Cancer, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital Trust

Panel discussion: 'All in a day’s work', one stop diagnostics (for prostate and bladder cancer)

Chair: Paula Allcorne, Lead Urology Nurse, Barts Health NHS Trust

Panel: Claire Annakin, Urology Nurse Practitioner, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Miss Vicki Moreton-Davies, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust

Reena Kakodkar, Prostate Pathway Specialist Nurse, Northampton General Hospital

Lillian White, Urology Oncology Lead Nurse, Ayr Hospital

Hilary Baker, Macmillan Lead, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Uro-oncology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Tea and coffee break and exhibition

Coloplast will be running drop-in sessions at their stand on when and why to prescribe Intermittent Self-Catheterisation (ISC)

Improving care for older patients

Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, Consultant, Geriatric Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust 

Refining care in renal cancer

Rachel Cole, Uro-Oncology, Clinical Nurse Specialist (Renal), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

Dr Jason Alcorn, Nurse Consultant, Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust 

New ideas for nephrostomy care

Jenny Akins, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Catherine Dixon, Clinical Nurse Specialist Urology, South Wales

Miss Lauren Brown, Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Optimum Medical

Panel discussion: Innovations in cancer support

Chair: Louisa Fleure, Consultant Nurse, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Panel: Pauline Bagnall, Urology Nurse, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Jenny Akins

Lillian White

Lunch break and exhibition

Coloplast will be running drop-in sessions at their stand on when and why to prescribe Intermittent Self-Catheterisation (ISC)

Reducing the risk of urosepsis’

Dr Mark Melzer, Consultant, Infection, Barts Health NHS Trust

Polly Weston, Chair, The Association for Continence Professionals and Clinical Lead Bladder and Bowel Service, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

Lessons for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTs) one stop

Sarah Hillery

Craig Clelland, Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist, Urology/ NHS FIFE

Progressing continence: A fully nurse-led pathway

Ms Rachel Skews, Urology Specialist Nurse Practitioner, North Bristol NHS Trust

Sarah Hillery

Elizabeth Rowland, Urology Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Panel discussion: Innovative approaches to catheter management – new solutions to old problems

Chair: Sarah Hillery

Panel: Miss Gabriel Sullivan, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Eastbourne District General Hospital

Mrs Jane Perkins, Lead Urology Nurse Practitioner, Lister Hospital, East and North Herts NHS Trust (online)

Tea and coffee break and exhibition

Coloplast will be running drop-in sessions at their stand on when and why to prescribe Intermittent Self-Catheterisation (ISC)

Developments in learning disabilities

Ben Taylor, Education Nurse Practitioner, B7 Learning Disabilities and Autism, Barts Health NHS Trust

Involving charities more in care

Louise de Winter, Director of Research, The Urology Foundation

Abhijeet Neti

Molly Nichols

Panel discussion: Coaching to improve your careers

Chair: Julia Taylor

Panel: Paula Allcorne

Mr David Ross, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Responsible Officer and Associate Post Graduate Dean, Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance

Innovation within CISC to reduce more UTI risk factors – Coloplast sponsored symposium session

Michelle Hogan-Tricks, Neurogenic Clinical Lead, Coloplast

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Professor James Green and Paula Allchorne

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Welcome and introduction

Professor James Green, President, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Sarah Hillery, President, BAUN and York and Scarborough Gloucestershire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Project: Organisational culture embracing quality improvement

Mrs Julia Taylor, Macmillan Consultant Nurse Urology, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford Care Organisation (part of the Northern Care Alliance)

Advancing andrology

Mrs Claire Arblaster (nee Davies), Lead Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hereford County Hospital, Wye Valley NHS Trust 

Miss Fiona Holden, Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Better care for bladder cancer

Mrs Rebecca Rushton, Nurse Consultant, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Kathryn Chatterton, Bladder Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Guy’s Hospital

Mrs Laura Noble, Bladder Cancer, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital Trust

Panel discussion: 'All in a day’s work', one stop diagnostics (for prostate and bladder cancer)

Chair: Paula Allcorne, Lead Urology Nurse, Barts Health NHS Trust

Panel: Claire Annakin, Urology Nurse Practitioner, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Miss Vicki Moreton-Davies, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust

Reena Kakodkar, Prostate Pathway Specialist Nurse, Northampton General Hospital

Lillian White, Urology Oncology Lead Nurse, Ayr Hospital

Hilary Baker, Macmillan Lead, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Uro-oncology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Comfort break
Improving care for older patients

Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, Consultant, Geriatric Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust 

Refining care in renal cancer

Rachel Cole, Uro-Oncology, Clinical Nurse Specialist (Renal), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

Dr Jason Alcorn, Nurse Consultant, Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust 

New ideas for nephrostomy care

Jenny Akins, Urology Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Catherine Dixon, Clinical Nurse Specialist Urology, South Wales

Miss Lauren Brown, Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Optimum Medical

Panel discussion: Innovations in cancer support

Chair: Louisa Fleure, Consultant Nurse, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Panel: Pauline Bagnall, Urology Nurse, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Jenny Akins

Lillian White

Lunch break
Reducing the risk of urosepsis’

Dr Mark Melzer, Consultant, Infection, Barts Health NHS Trust

Polly Weston, Chair, The Association for Continence Professionals and Clinical Lead Bladder and Bowel Service, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

Lessons for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTs) one stop

Sarah Hillery

Craig Clelland, Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist, Urology/ NHS FIFE

Progressing continence: A fully nurse-led pathway

Ms Rachel Skews, Urology Specialist Nurse Practitioner, North Bristol NHS Trust

Sarah Hillery

Elizabeth Rowland, Urology Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Panel discussion: Innovative approaches to catheter management – new solutions to old problems

Chair: Sarah Hillery

Panel: Miss Gabriel Sullivan, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Eastbourne District General Hospital

Mrs Jane Perkins, Lead Urology Nurse Practitioner, Lister Hospital, East and North Herts NHS Trust (online)

Comfort break
Developments in learning disabilities

Ben Taylor, Education Nurse Practitioner, B7 Learning Disabilities and Autism, Barts Health NHS Trust

Involving charities more in care

Louise de Winter, Director of Research, The Urology Foundation

Abhijeet Neti

Molly Nichols

Panel discussion: Coaching to improve your careers

Chair: Julia Taylor

Panel: Paula Allcorne

Mr David Ross, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Responsible Officer and Associate Post Graduate Dean, Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance

Innovation within CISC to reduce more UTI risk factors – Coloplast sponsored symposium session

Michelle Hogan-Tricks, Neurogenic Clinical Lead, Coloplast

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Professor James Green and Paula Allchorne

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for the in-person option will close at 1:00am on 21 March 2024 and for the virtual option on 22 March 2024. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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