Specialist MDT: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
NB On 1 October 2019, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals and Aintree University Hospital merged to become Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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The following services are available at this hospital trust (updated 2021). Men diagnosed at this trust may be able to access additional services from other trusts within the specialist multidisciplinary team:
- Diagnostic Facilities:
- Multiparametric MRI
- Transperineal biopsy under local anaesthetic
- Transperineal biopsy under general anaesthetic
- Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy
- Choline PET
- PSMA (prostate-specific membrane antigen) PET scan
- Whole body MRI
- Isotope bone scan
- Treatment Facilities:
- Radical prostatectomy
- Robot assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
- Joint specialist MDT clinic
- Support Service Facilities:
- Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in all clinics
- Prostate cancer-specific CNSs
- Advanced PCa CNS
- Urology CNS
- Sexual function services
- Specialist continence services
- Psychological counselling
Disease Presentation
Management
These indicators could not be reported this year for England as we were unable to assign a patient to a particular risk group due to the unavailability of information on PSA and Gleason score in the Rapid Cancer Registration Dataset