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- Facilities
- Booked
Admissions
- Prostate
Assessment Clinic
- Transrectal
Ultrasound (TRUS) and Prostate Biopsy
- Prostate
Cancer Clinic
- Continence
Service
- Erectile
Dysfunction Clinic
- Haematuria
Service
- Urodynamics
- Intravesical
Chemotherapy
- Laser
Surgery
- Lithotripsy
(ESWL)
- Training
All
referrals to Urology are processed in the Unit
and acted upon accordingly. We aim to provide
a fast effective service within the Government
guidelines. Referrals can be sent by internal
post,
fax
or e-mail.
Facilities:
- Small
car park
- Large
waiting area
- 2
Consulting /
Examination rooms
- Treatment
Suite
& recovery area
- Urodynamics
Suite
- Research
Department
- Offices
- Hot/cold
drinks
- Public
telephone
- Toilets
incl. disabled
- Wheelchair
access
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Erectile
Dysfunction Clinic
This
is a Urology Nurse Specialist run service which
provides assessment, support and treatment to
men with Erectile Dysfunction. Treatment options
are discussed, preferably with the active involvement
of the partner.
Referrals
are taken directly from GPs and also from other
hospital departments, the Community Diabetic Nurse
Specialist and the Psychosexual Counselling Service.
The
aims of the clinic are:
- To
re-establish patient and partner satisfaction
with sexual activity and function
- To
provide ongoing support to the patient, whether
treated or not, and to promote health education,
information and training
- To
recognise and refer those patients who require
further investigation or specialist management,
either by a Urologist or by the Psychosexual
Counselling Service.
Services
Is it just me or do other people feel that medical staff, in general, are not quite what they used to be? Nowadays, there would appear to be a lot more people in charge of departments and other administrative roles who have absolutely no official medical training whatsoever. Their skills would be more in-keeping with a commercial business. Yet they are in charge of making important decisions on what should go on in hospitals. Several decades ago, there was no call for so many managerial and administrative staff and the medical institutions did not seem to be any worse off for it. After all, MRSA and other super bugs have only really materialised in the last 15 years or so, so hygiene definitely hasn't improved as a result of these newly created posts. In fact, if we are talking about what is healthy and in any person's best interests, it seems that our hospital system quite simply is not working. Management have lost insight into the real job at hand which is to create specialist departments with fully trained cardiologist nurses in heart attack units, and professional andrologist and urologists for prescribing Levitra tablets for male health care following prostate cancer operations. There are a definite percentage of staff that really do feel that they possess the same amount of power as a Greek God. When they hold so much power in their hands, it can come across as being one big game to them, as they make decisions that are likely to affect people's lives to a huge extent. Of course, the Government has not been able to help but notice these downward trends, and as a consequence, recognition of how things used to work in the past is becoming increasingly important. This means that authoritative hospital figures such as matrons are definitely making a come back in many hospitals. Our traditional concept of a hospital does not involve an individual who is in charge of a hospital department with a degree in business studies. This can not and will not ever work and recent times have proven this. Instead, we picture a matron, a sister and other nurses and doctors and a return to these more traditional ways of running medical institutions is long overdue.
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