- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- General urology
- Urological oncology
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Mr. Philip Charlesworth is a UK Consultant Urological Surgeon. He was invited to join The Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 2023 having worked at The Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading for over 10 years.
He specialises in Prostate and Bladder Cancer. He is renowned as one of the highest volume robotic surgeons in the UK, having performed approximately 1500 robotic pelvic oncological operations over the past 10+ years.
He is internationally renowned for improving patients' continence following pelvic cancer surgery, particularly his work pioneering the novel robotic technique of Retzius sparing robotic prostatectomy. He is also internationally recognised as one of the highest volume Surgeons for robotic Cystectomy with intracorporeal ileal conduit / neobladder formation (iRARC). He has published widely on his outcomes, showing some of the lowest complication rates in the world literature.
He has been Director of the robotic fellowship programme at The Royal Berkshire since 2017, training 6 international fellows including 4 x Consultant Surgeons from Brisbane, Australia.
In Berkshire he was chair of the specialist multidisciplinary cancer team of the urology Berkshire Cancer Centre / South Thames Valley, overseeing approximately 1500 new cancers diagnoses per year.
https://www.mrphilipcharlesworth.co.uk/
Mr Charlesworth's surgical training began in 2001 in the NHS & Military hospitals on the South Coast of the UK. He went on to the University of Oxford in 2004 to begin a post-graduate degree in the Molecular Genetics of Urological Malignancies, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.
In 2007 Mr Philip Charlesworth initiated his Specialist Surgical training in Urology & Uro-Oncology within the hospitals of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire. The final years of specialist training were concentrated on robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery & open surgery for major urological cancers and subsequent surgical reconstruction.
In 2012, Mr Philip Charlesworth was awarded a British Urological Foundation Robotic Preceptorship with Professor Indebir Gill and his robotic surgical team at the University of Southern California Institute of Urology, Los Angeles, California, USA. Professor Inderbir Gill is arguably one of the greatest minimally invasive surgeons in the world. Mr Philip Charlesworth also has experience working with the robotic surgical teams of Regina Elena Hospital, National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy, Harlev University Hospital, Copenhagen, and the Institute of Karolinska, Stockholm.
Mr Philip Charlesworth was appointed substantive Consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2012. He was appointed full time Consultant at The Royal Marsden Hospital in 2023.
Areas of interest
Prostate Cancer; Specialist MRI of the Prostate to avoid unnecessary transrectal biopsy;Visual Registration / Fusion mpMRI enhanced targeted prostate biopsies; Retzius sparing Nerve Sparing Da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy; Prostate Brachytherapy; General Urology; Infective & Inflammatory Conditions of the Prostate and Bladder; Urological Cancers / Uro-Oncology; Urological Reconstruction including robotic neobladder formation; Diseases of the Prostate & Bladder;
Robotic Surgery & Minimally Invasive Surgery;
Urological Reconstruction; Haematuria (Visible or Non-Visible); Any general problems related to Penis / Scrotum; Elevated PSA / Prostate Cancer diagnosis & treatment; Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, BPH; Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, LUTS; Bladder Cancer (detection, surgical management & surveillance); Kidney Cancer
Medical secretaries
- Hayley / Claire
- 020 7952 1466
- pa@philipcharlesworth.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr John W Mackenzie at the following hospitals:
- Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Edward Todman at the following hospitals:
- Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Christopher Edge at the following hospitals:
- Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
- GenesisCare, Windsor (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Ian Rechner at the following hospitals:
- Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Carl S Waldmann at the following hospitals:
- Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Jerome G Cockings at the following hospitals:
- Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Philip Charlesworth has worked with Dr Jonathan Mayer at the following hospitals:
- Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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M4510
Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder (flexible cystoscopy) including any biopsy - (5-50)
Berkshire Health Limited (5-50) GenesisCare, Windsor (5-50) Princess Grace Hospital (1-5) Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (5-50)
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M6583
Transperineal MRI - US fusion targeted prostate biopsy - (5-50)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5) GenesisCare, Windsor (5-50) Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (1-5)
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M6530
Endoscopic resection of prostate (TUR) (including cystoscopy) - (5-50)
Ramsay Berkshire Independent Hospital (5-50) Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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M7071
Transurethral water jet ablation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia - (1-5)
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M4514
Endoscopic examination of bladder (rigid cystoscopy) including any biopsy - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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PM001
Pay member claim - missing information - (1-5)
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M4210
Endoscopic resection of lesion of bladder (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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M5580
Excision of urethral caruncle - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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M0284
Robotic assisted laparoscopic nephroureterectomy - (1-5)
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M1910
Construction of ileal conduit (including ureteric implantation) - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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M4310
Endoscopic transection of bladder (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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BT212
Insertion of low dose rate radioactive agent (brachytherapy) into prostate tumour - (1-5)
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M2080
Unilateral replantation of ureter into bladder (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)
Princess Grace Hospital (1-5)
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M6192
Robotic assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, reconstruction of bladder neck including bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy (including cystoscopy) - (1-5)