St George’s University Hospitals offers unique and highly specialised services for bladder and renal cancer to a very wide base of patients across the South East of England and beyond. Key to these services is offering patients choice and options in treatment plans. There is a dedicated urologist for each case and dedicated service for bladder and renal cancer. Every bladder cancer patient is offered robotic surgery and 95% of surgery is minimally invasive. Because of this, the hospital can offer surgery to a wider population including older patients and 20% of patients are over 80 years of age. For kidney cancer the hospital can offer several treatment options including HiFu treatment. The department has strong links with radiologists and can offer embolization for both benign and malignant tumours. Patient can choose to have treatment close to where they live as St George’s University Hospitals provides services at 4 locations: Croydon University Hospital, Epsom Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital and St George’s. Patients have a full discussion with a multi-disciplinary team about their treatment. This ensures standardisation of care. Patients are supported by nurse specialists for help with disease management. There is a sense of shared ownership between the patient and surgeon about treatment plans. This a long term relationship and continuity of care is very important. http://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

• published: 20 Mar 2017
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