Resources

Updated guidance on catheter care from the Royal College of Nursing is a resource for any healthcare professional who is required to undertake urinary catheterisation as part of their role. Intended for use in both teaching and practice, it combines evidence with clinical experience and expert opinion. 

This two-part series explores why a good balance of microbiota is important and what factors encourage a healthy microbiota and what factors cause an imbalanced one. This first article outlines why the gut microbiome is so important for health and wellbeing and what an unbalanced microbiota (otherwise known as dysbiosis) can lead to. 

Key words: Gut microbiome; Physical and mental wellbeing; Healthy microbiota; Dysbiosis; Gut–brain axis

In a companion piece to their previous article, Abdul Seckam, Stephen Mitchell and Heidi V Tempest discuss the benefits and challenges of using teleurology and outline a case study where their digital urology service was used to address a backlog of patients waiting for a urology assessment.  

RCN report outlines impact of nurses remaining on lower bands on career progression, staff retention and patient care.  

While it has long been known that black men have a higher lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer, a new analysis by Prostate Cancer UK has shown that ethnic disparities persist at every socioeconomic level, with black Caribbean men consistently facing the greatest burden. The analysis concludes that increased mortality from prostate cancer among black men cannot be explained solely by socioeconomic factors. 

New guidelines from the Department for Health and Social Care have been published. Their aim is to improve the quality of alcohol treatment so that people with patterns of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence get better help and support and achieve better outcomes. 

EFUNCore, a core educational framework for urology nursing, was launched at the British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN) conference in Edinburgh last month. Devised, constructed and agreed as a partnership between four international urology nursing associations – BAUN, the European Association of Urology Nurses, the New Zealand Urological Nurses Society and the Australia and New Zealand Urological Nurses Society – the document is a step forward in the education of urology nurses.

Up to 30% of children are affected by constipation at any one time. In this article, June Rogers highlights the importance of early intervention and looks at the evidence for the different management and treatment options. This follows on from her previous article looking at the factors that contribute to childhood constipation. 

An updated consensus statement from the British Menopause Society is now available on the topic of genitourinary syndrome of menopause, updating the previous guidance on urogenital atrophy.  

New guidance from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) gives another treatment option for people with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer for whom docetaxel is not suitable. The guidance discusses the use of darolutamide with androgen deprivation therapy for treating hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer.