A new Blog named Journal watch has been added to the Staffordshire Urology Clinic website. It has been created to raise awareness of interesting articles from the Urological literature and community.

A new section on the adrenal gland has been added to the Staffordshire Urology Clinic Website. The section gives a overview of the gland and problems that can occur, aswell as a description of surgical treatment with laparoscopic adrenalectomy. There is a image resource in the section for GPs.

In the last week alone there have been 100 unique visitors to the Staffordshire Urology Clinic website. There have been over 1,600 visitors in the last 5 months with almost 5,000 page views.

Since it’s go live date on 25th November 2011 the Staffordshire Urology Clinic website has had over 1,000 unique visitors. There have been over 5,200 page views, by visitors from all around the world.

A new section has been added to the Staffordshire Urology Clinic website, which is aimed at health care professionals; in particular local General Practitioners. This section has extra resources including an image and video library. Suggestions for further development are requested.

A very enjoyable and informative evening was spent on 3rd April 2012 at the Leek Golf Club discussing Men’s Health issues. About 35 members of the club joined 3 Consultants from the Staffordshire Urology Clinic and a senior Nursing Sister from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire to discuss a number of topics. The meeting was introduced and chaired by Mr Liu.

Mr Luscombe first talked about the prostate including it’s position, function and problems that it might cause, such as a poor urinary flow, prostatitis and prostate cancer. He went on to talk about appropriate tests, including the use of PSA testing, and treatments ranging from monitoring, drug therapy and surgery for each of the problems. This generated a large number of questions from a very interested and enthusiastic audience, especially concerning prostate cancer and surgery such laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and laser prostate surgery.

Mr Gommersall then talked about a number of conditions including blood in the urine, erection problems, low testosterone and testicular swellings. Questions from the audience came thick and fast, with particular interest in the effects and treatment of low testosterone.

Informal discussions before and after the formal presentation were of great interest and the Staffordshire Urology Clinic would like to thank the Chairman and members of the golf club for their invitation, interest and warm hospitality.

The Staffordshire Urology Clinic have been invited to attend a Men’s Health education event at Leek Golf club at 7.30pm on 3rd April 2012. Issues for discussion include, prostate problems including cancer, erection problems, testicular swellings including cancer, kidney problems, blood in the urine and bladder problems including bladder cancer.

Mr Golash is widely recognised as an expert at (laparoscopic) keyhole kidney surgery. He has helped a number of local surgeons to introduce this type of surgery to their hospitals. His latest project is to help a surgeon in Dumfries, Scotland, where patients have to either have traditional major cutting open surgery, or travel hundreds of miles and wait months for keyhole surgery. A surgeon from Dumfries has made a number of visits to Stoke, to observe the surgery, and Mr Golash has so far made 1 trip to Scotland, to ensure that the surgery is introduced safely.