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Past WUS Meetings

The society meets each year at a central location, to facilitate regular attendance by both North and South Wales members.

The meetings now include the WUS Business meeting, a training afternoon with presentation and debates, a trade exhibition with dinner, invited guest speakers, and prizes for the best poster and oral paper presentations.

  • Unmoderated Poster Winner: £100 WUS Prize
  • Moderated Poster Winner: £250 Huw Williams Prize
  • Oral Paper Winner: £500 The Urology Foundation (TUF) Prize

The meeting venue is at the Metropole Hotel & Spa, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells LD1 5DY

2020 Meeting

Click here to view the full programme of the meeting held on 23 & 24 January 2020 at the Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod.. At that meeting, the Huw Williams Prize was awarded to the following paper:

Lessons from a prospective study on the prevalence of risk factors for urothelial cancer
Rajan K, Bennett A, Kandaswamy GV, James B, Jefferies M, Bose P ... read the abstract
 

2019 Meeting

Click here to view the full programme of the meeting held on 24 & 25 January 2019 at the Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod. At that meeting the Huw Williams Prize was awarded to the following paper:

Predicting response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer
Jefferies M, Bennett A, David R, Wilson J, Carter A, Kanda-Swamy G, Bose P ... read the abstract
 

2018 Meeting

Click here to view the full programme of the meeting held on 25 & 26 January 2018 at the Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod. At that meeting, as a result of the high quality of the presentations, the judges were unable to select a single winner for the Huw Williams Prize. Two awards were, therefore, made for the following papers:

Intravesical injection of Botulinum A toxin for the treatment of overactive bladder in anticoagulated patients – is it safe?
Luton O, Smith H, Lindley A, Kneen A, Lewis-Russell J, Younis A.
Department of Urology. Morriston Hospital, Swansea ... read the abstract
 
An audit of non-contrast CT KUB scan length in the detection of ureteric stones: are we over radiating our patients?
Ahmad A, Roushias S, Sullivan C
Departments of Urology and Radiology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea ... read the abstract
 

2015 Meetings

The Autumn 2015 meeting, hosted by the Princess of Wales Hospital Bridgend, was held at Hensol Vale Resort on 12 & 13 November 2015.

The April 2015 meeting, hosted by Wrexham Maelor Hospital, was held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel.

 

2014 Meetings

The November 2014 meeting, hosted by Glanwili General Hospital Carmarthen, was held at the Diplomat Hotel & Spa.

The March 2014 meeting, hosted by Morriston Hospital Swansea, was held at the Dylan Thomas Centre 

 

2013 Meetings

The November 2013 meeting, hosted by University Hospital Wales, was held at the Cardiff Copthorne Hotel.

The morning session was opened by Mr Paul Jones from Morriston Hospital, Swansea who entertained the audience with his "STAG (horn stones) experience in Sri Lanka".  He was followed by the President of BAUS, Mr Adrian Joyce (pictured right with Professor Howard Kynaston), who discusssed the "The changing face of urology."

After coffee, Mr Nilay Patel from Oxford gave a presentation on "Autotransplantation for RCC", Mr Paul Cathcart (an ex-trainee from Wales) from UCLH talked about "The National Prostate Cancer Audit" and Dr John Rees, Consultant Radiologist from UHW, Cardiff gave a presentation on "PET services". 

The paper presentations in the afternoon were well received and the Huw Williams Prize was won by final-year urology ST, Mr JS Phull for his paper on "High-grade prostate cancer with primary pattern 3 (3+5=8): the South Wales surgical experience".

The April 2013 meeting, hosted by Glan Clywd Hospital Rhyl, was held at St George's Hotel.

 

2012 Meetings

The October 2012 meeting, hosted by Royal Gwent Hospital Newport, was held at The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny.

The March 2012 meeting, hosted by Royal Glamorgan Hospital, was held at Hensol Vale Resort.

 

Meetings before 2012