Resources

Overview: Website - Kidney cancer is the seventh most common type of cancer in the UK and there have been some important advances in its treatment over the last few years. But we know there can be further improvements, and the results generated by this new audit will help us to deliver that successfully across the country.

Overview: A state of the nation report 2023

Overview: Spreading best practice, reducing infections, improving outcomes for patients with urinary catheters and intravascular devices.

Overview: This guide has been written to support hospital trusts in developing their urology services and to consider how best to establish a urology area network (UAN). It has been produced as a supplement to the GIRFT programme’s national specialty report into NHS urology services, authored by GIRFT clinical lead Simon Harrison and published in July 2018. The report was the result of Mr Harrison’s national review of NHS urology services in England undertaken between August 2016 and April 2019.

Overview: The GIRFT national report for urology promotes the roll-out of dedicated urological investigation units (UIUs); a greater emphasis on outpatient services and day surgery procedures; and extending the role of specialist nurses – a move which would, in turn, free up consultants to provide consultant-led emergency urology care.

Overview: Oncology and non-oncology guidelines

Overview: This guideline covers assessing and managing renal and ureteric stones. It aims to improve the detection, clearance and prevention of stones, so reducing pain and anxiety, and improving quality of life.

Overview: This guideline covers diagnosing and managing bladder cancer in people 18 and above referred from primary care with suspected bladder cancer, and those with newly diagnosed or recurrent bladder (urothelial carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, squamous-cell carcinoma or small-cell carcinoma) or urethral cancer.

Overview: This guideline covers the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer in secondary care, including information on the best way to diagnose and identify different stages of the disease, and how to manage adverse effects of treatment. It also includes recommendations on follow-up in primary care for people diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Overview: Prostate, bladder, renal, testicular and penile cancer

Overview: A summary

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