News
November 2023 Meeting
27/11/23
For our November Meeting our guest speaker was Mr Peter Cooke: "An experienced and established Consultant Urological Surgeon with a specialist interest in pelvic oncology, with a proven track record of surgical innovation, clinical leadership and service development" from the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust…
October 2023 Meeting
01/11/23
We had a great talk tonight from Tony Kelly, a diabetes strategic patient partner for the Birmingham and Solihull ICS (Integrated Care System)
We learnt about the causes and symptoms and differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes and what we can do to keep type 2 at bay. Tony has offered to return in the new year to talk about nutrition in more detail…
September 2023 Meeting
26/09/23
Tonight we heard from Martin Conlon, Shirley Lions, who told us all about running A PSA Blood testing event. This followed on the recent successful event in Shirely that provided a PSA blood test to over 200 Men…
August 2023 Meeting
29/08/23
Tonight we had another Roundtable meeting. This had followed our usual update on Hot Topics / Whats in the news…
July 2023 Meeting
25/07/23
Tonight we welcomed our guest speaker Harriet Lee RN of Prostate Cancer Research (PCR), Communities and Communications Executive to talk to us about a new excitig patient information project called Infopool. https://www.theinfopool.co.uk/…
June 2023 Meeting
27/06/23
Tonight we held our periodical Roundtable discussions. For these we have some basic ground rules:
•Confidentiality first. What’s said in the group stays in the group - unless you have permission to share. •Share your experiences, how you feel about them - but don’t share medical advice. •Accept each other just as they are - without making judgements…
May 2023 Meeting
30/05/23
Tonight we watched a video titled: Prostate Cancer: A Cancer epidemic of the modern age; Professor Vincent Gnanapragasam, CUH Consultant Urologist and Professor of Urology at the University of Cambridge https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/news/medicine-for-members-prostate-a-cancer-pandemic-of-the-modern-era/…
April 2023 Meeting
25/04/23
At this meeting we reviewed the information that is given to men after a Prostatectomy:
Self-Management: CHESTNUT
Here are some tips from men who have been down the same route as you and have had their prostate removed. It’s a list of things that you can do for yourself to help you get back in control of things…
March 2023 Meeting
28/03/23
At this meeting we received feedback from the Tackle AGM and National Conference. We are members of Tackle - the National Federation of Prostate Cancer Support Groups. There are over 100 groups in the Federation…
February 2023 Meeting
28/02/23
Our Speaker at this months meeting was Gerard Greene, a local Physiotherapist who has a growing international reputation for men's pelvic health. He talked to us about continence and penile health after treatment…