Would routine catheterisation put patients off coming forward? The answer is probably yes, a catheterisation is not a dignified procedure. So there needs to be a good alternative.

Working with their clinical colleagues, microbiology specialists are therefore seeking a better method and clinical trials to assess new systems are now underway. The forerunner is the Peezy urine collection system.

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The hospitals, The Wellington, The London Bridge Hospital, The Harley Street Clinic, The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, The Lister Hospital and The Princess Grace Hospital, have consistently achieved high standards of cleanliness in recent years.

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Cyberknife units are currently getting a lot of requests for patients seeking a treatment for pancreatic cancer. The new stereotactic radiosurgery system (Cyberknife) lends itself particularly well to treating this form of cancer, however, it is normally limited for those people who have otherwise inoperable cancer.

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Leading London orthopaedic surgeon Warwick Radford says: “Charnley’s successful metal on plastic hip replacement had the smallest diameter (22mm) of any design of hip replacement (then and now). Small diameters result in less friction but are more likely to dislocate. So a larger diameter ball is desirable both for stability (i.e. less likely to dislocate) and for greater range of movement.”

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Young children and babies are at the most risk from invasive surgery, so what are the options when such procedures become necessary? Paediatric Surgeon Niall Jones explains the benefits of minimal access surgery for procedures commonly required in babies, such as inguinal hernias, as well as those less common, such as gallbladder stones.

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Warwick Radford, a leading UK hip surgeon, has recently written a piece on the variety of hip surgery available, including his “hip tips” on the options for hip replacement.

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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is the most modern means of treating symptoms associated with menopause. In his article, Professor John Studd repudiates the fallacies associated with this treatment and establishes it as a safe and modern means of allowing women a healthy and normal life

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Chemotherapy has long been seen as the lesser of two evils. When contrasted with its alternative, cancer, its benefits have been seen to outweigh its many detriments. Now, however, both chemo and invasive surgery look set to become obsolete for some forms of cancer thanks to a new, safe technology developed in association with the leading London medical centres including The Harley Street Clinic.

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Senior gynaecologists have expressed concern that older women my often be prescribed antidepressant drugs for depression that is in fact caused by a change in hormone levels and in circumstances when hormone treatment would be more appropriate. Why, then are so many women treated with anti-depressants when they really require hormone treatment? One possible reason for this is a failure by GPs to look beyond the symptoms, which is exacerbated by continuing fears surrounding the safety of HRT. However, Professor John Studd Dsc MD FRCOG points out that the latest medical evidence supports the use of HRT,

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Arjun Shankar writes about hernias that occur in the midline of the abdomen – these are second in frequency only to groin hernias

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