Prostate Research Campaign UK - Training

SPECIALIST TRAINING

The Prostate Research Campaign UK makes a limited number of training grants to urology specialists to enable them to offer a better service to those affected by Prostate diseases. These grants are usually for amounts of under £10,000 and we sometimes ask those benefiting from them to also make a personal contribution. Two recent such grants provide an good examples of what can be done:

John Donohue, who had recently completed a Fellowship in urological oncology at the prestigious Memorial Sloane-Kettering Institute in New York, was sponsored to undertake laparoscopic training under Professor Fournier in Brest, France, for six months. During this training he was also able to undertake further research and to complete several papers, which have since been accepted for publication. See a report of the training here.
Pradip Javle, who offers Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomies at the Leighton Hospital in Cheshire, was determined to improve the skills of his theatre staff but was unable to get funding from his NHS Trust. He sought support from the charity to enable his team to visit centres of excellence in Europe: this training has now been completed and indeed was reported in Edition 26 of UPDATE. Go to the newsletter here and look for "Take pride" on p8.

Further details of the application procedure for such grants are available from the charity.