NEUS Summer 2021 Newsletter

Dear All

Firstly, a few words from our BAUS Regional Representative – Mr Mark Johnson.

Dear NEUS members

Welcome everyone! For those of you who don’t know I took over as BAUS Regional Rep last summer. I have some big shoes to fill and I would like to thank David Thomas for his sterling work both as regional representative and Trustee. It is a great shame that we could not meet up last year either in Birmingham for BAUS or in Durham for the NEUS meeting, but I am hopeful that we will get the chance to meet up in person this November at NEUS. I hope that most of you will register for BAUS 2021, which will once again be a virtual meeting and has a Global Urology theme with a lot of international input.

The BAUS registries have now closed and the focus has switched to more focussed, and time limited, audits. The Audit Steering Group at BAUS is also working closely with GIRFT and NCIP (National Consultant Information Programme) to create an online platform that will generate individual activity data and patient outcome benchmarks to replace the old registries and facilitate reflection and appraisal of our clinical activity. The current plan is for urology to be a vanguard specialty.

The Mesh pause continues and, since April 2021, Newcastle has officially been recognised by NHS England as a Mesh removal centre under the leadership of Karen Brown (Urogynaecologist RVI) and Chris Harding (also BAUS mesh lead). Finally I would like to thank Ali Rogers for all his hard work as NEUS secretary and wish Andy Moon the best of luck as he takes over in that role. I hope that we can all get behind Andy to support the NEUS meetings this year and in the future. I am also very grateful to Deb Wood for her continued administrative input into NEUS and to Matt Shaw for his work as treasurer.

Please put the NEUS meeting date in your diaries (26th November 2021). The programme looks great and let’s hope that the meeting will go ahead face to face and that we can get back together in person as friends and colleagues to catch up with the news and provide that vital peer group support that we all need to survive in these sometimes challenging times. In the meantime enjoy the summer and I hope that you all get the chance to get away somewhere nice for a holiday (even if it is in the UK!). If there any issues that you would like me to raise with BAUS then please contact me.

Best wishes

Mark Johnson;

BAUS NE Regional Rep Email: mark.johnson27@nhs.net

ISCP update Miss O’Riordan

Dear all, Starting September 2021 we are moving to the new ISCP curriculum for our surgical trainees, apart from those in their final year.

There are significant changes coming. The idea is that there will be more emphasis on outcomes and competencies rather than numbers. The most notable one is that the clinical supervisor will be responsible for arranging and compiling the ‘Multiple Consultant Report’ (MCR). This will be a report created after discussion with other clinical supervisors about the trainees progress.

The terminology will be changing significantly and you will need to familiarise yourself with this. Therefore I urge you all to:

1. Look at the Trial MCR in your trainees portfolio now, and go through one with them to get an understanding of how it will work and what will be expected. It is quite a detailed report.

2. If you look at the FAQ section of the ISCP the first question that comes up is ‘What are the key changes?’ And if you open that up and click on the links it sends you to lots of different youtube videos that are very helpful

3. BAUS have run some webinars so these are very helpful and probably still available through your BAUS membership.

4. The role of the educational supervisor is relatively unchanged.

So good luck with the changes. Like everyone we need to embrace change and see it as a force for good or we end up like the dinosaurs!

I look forward to giving you a brief update at NEUS this autumn but please do not wait until then. Any questions or issues please do not hesitate to contact me at a.oriordan@nhs.net and thank you all for your ongoing support of your wonderful trainees. Stay safe.

Anna O’Riordan- Urology TPD