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The Article of the Month is the first NICE Guidance to be published in the BJUI. On this month's cover we celebrate both that and the BAUS conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, later this month with a photo of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow     ©istock.com/railelectropower     Click here for this issue’s Table of Contents    

On behalf of the BAUS Council, I am delighted to write this editorial looking forward to the 73rd annual meeting of the BAUS, which will be held in Glasgow from 26 to 28 June. In response to feedback we had from delegates following BAUS 2016 and the successful European Association of Urology meeting in London this March, we have changed the format and duration of the meeting, ensuring that it has a distinct feel, reflecting the best of British Urology. With Brexit looming and the precarious…

Veeru Kasivisvanathan SpR in Urology & NIHR Doctoral Fellow, University College London & University College Hospital London. This National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance is the current, unaltered NICE guidance at time of publication. BJUI publishes selected NICE guidance relevant to urologists to extend their distribution and promote best practice.  Recommendations 1.1 The case for adopting GreenLight XPS for treating benign prostatic…

Ever since the World Health Organisation launched the Safe Surgery Saves Lives campaign in 2007, surgical safety has been drawn to the forefront of the daily surgical routine. The introduction of the 19-point Surgical Safety Checklist, aimed at reducing preventable complications, has become key, with shouts of ‘time-out’ or ‘checklist’ becoming the norm at the start of each case. Equally whether known as the ‘huddle’ or ‘team brief’, the meeting of all team members at the beginning…

The #AUA17 meeting was starting to hot up with the anticipation of the crossfire sessions controversy in urology,  second opinion cases and surgical technique plenary session. The early crossfire session was looking at adult onset hypogonadism. The  debaters  gave convincing arguments on both sides of the discussion but we were left in no doubt that adult-onset hypogonadism is a true medical condition and urologists need to recognise the symptoms and treat when appropriate. https://twitter.com/ashleygwinter/status/863731666728218625   There…

It was a cold and wet Boston that welcomed the thousands of delegates from around the world for the start of #AUA17. Being home to such pre-eminent centres of learning and academia as Harvard, MIT and Fenway Park, we looked forward to a productive and enjoyable meeting. Set on the South Boston Waterfront, the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre offered an elegant home to us for the next 5 days and provided all the necessary tools for scientific discussion: numerous coffee shops and speedy wi-fi. Friday…

It’s hard to believe that we have been doing the BJUI Social Media Awards for five years now! I recall vividly our inaugural BJUI Social Media Awards in 2013, as the burgeoning social media community in urology gathered in the back of an Irish Bar in San Diego to celebrate all things social. At that time, many of us had only got to know each other through Twitter, and it was certainly fun going around the room putting faces with twitter handles for the first time. That spirit continues today as…

Historians report that Paul Revere never said these famous words; as Colonial Americans at the time still considered themselves British. Indeed, Americans still consider themselves European. The United States Census reports that 73% of Americans are of European descent, and 62% of these are of English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestry. These links to our heritage remain strong. With >1100 European members (close to 200 from the UK) and >300 members from Australia and New Zealand,…

BAUS – BJUI – USANZ Joint Session 2017 Sunday, May 14                               2:00 PM                Westin Grand Ballroom CDE [divider scroll] Personalised Medicine CHAIR: Prokar Dasgupta, BJUI Editor-in-Chief, King's Health Partners, London, UK 1400-1420 Bernard Bochner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA Personalised Medicine for Bladder cancer 1420-1440 Ian Vela, BJUI Sponsored USANZ Lecture,…