APRIL 2025
 Read Johann Boaz's,TUF Urolink Fellowship Report about his trip to  the 1st UROLAP Laparoscopic Urology Workshop at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana between 23-27th September 2024. Accompanied by Zeeshan Aslam, from Aberdeen, Elsie Mensah, from Guys Hospital, and Ali Thwaini, from the UAE, the team set about a a week-long, intense, hands-on workshop at this first visit, to be followed by workshops running every 6-12 months to consolidate until the unit was independent. Johann gained an enormous amount from this visit, learned just how different training and practice can be in LMICs and how they differ from his experience training in London.
Read Johann's report
APRIL 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025/26 TUF Urolink fellowships. TUF continues to support UK trainees who are BAUS members with this opportunity to get involved with a Urolink project across sub-Saharan Africa. Each fellowship attracts a £1,500 bursary towards the cost of travel, and a period of time in a Urolink recognised centre. There are four fellowships available and the deadline for applications is Friday 30th May.
....or apply via the TUF website
APRIL 2025
Rustam is running the London Marathon on 27th April for Urolink. Here is a greeting from Rustam that is on his Just Giving Page. "Hi all! I’m running the London Marathon this year to raise money for Urolink, a committee within the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), that helps provide expertise and much needed Urological equipment and training to help doctors and patients in resource disadvantaged countries. With your support, we can help raise funds that support the urological training of surgeons in these countries, promote professional visits from colleagues overseas for teaching and provide essential equipment that can be of immediate benefit for patients."
We are totally behind him, and his dog Izzy, in their endeavours to support all of Urolink's activities. Rustam is using the new BAUS Just Giving platform as his method of gathering support but you can also go directly to Rustam's page by clicking here.
MARCH 2025
  
Urolink are also delighted to announce this month that Mary Suphi, BAUS CEO, and the team at BAUS have registered the BAUS charity on the 'Just Giving' platform to facilitate donations to help with Urolink's activities. If you are doing anything to raise donations for Urolink, and want to GiftAid the donations, then you can do that by clicking the link here, or the button to the right of this message. Please copy the banner above into the comments box, to ensure that the donation is recognised as being aimed specifically to support Urolink!
MARCH 2025
 Urolink are very pleased to announce Danielle Whiting’s appointment as the next Secretary of Urolink. Danielle, consultant at Frimley Park Hospital, has a long-standing interest in international development and global health having chaired an international development charity, working in central America, Ghana and Greece, which focussed on holistic, community-led, sustainable development. She was awarded a TUF fellowship in 2023, which she used to participate in a PCNL workshop at KCMC in Tanzania, thereby combining her clinical interests with Urolink’s aims. Danielle is a staunch advocate of Urolink’s ethos in mentored training and is keen to encourage UK trainees to gain experience of working in LMICs. She is co-chairing the Urolink session at this year’s BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting after which she will take over from Steve Payne.
MARCH 2025
Brendan Berry and Mayur Gami accompanied Suzie Venn,  Tamsin Greenwell and Nikesh Thiruchelvam to Malawi in February as part of their TUF, and Cambridge Global Health Partnership, Fellowships. By the end of their visit, Malawian colleagues had successfully developed competence in performing basic urodynamics, urethral bulking, rectus fascial slings and clam cystoplasty, marking significant progress, However, long-term sustainability depends on the continued identification and management of appropriate patients, as well as the ability of local surgeons to integrate these newly learnt techniques into their already demanding workloads.
Read Brendan's report
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