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Website- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Benign Prostate disorders
- 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 over 2000 robotic pelvic oncological operations over the past 10+ years. (Many of the highest complexity).
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. Now with the latest SIngle Port Da Vinci robotic system.
He is a global leader in Aquablation, both benign disease and exploring its use in prostate cancer patients to try to reduce risks of incontinence and erectile dysfunction. The Cromwell Hospital now has the latest Hydros Aquablation system.
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; Single Port Da Vinci Robotic surgery; Single port Retzius sparing Nerve Sparing Da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy; Aquablation; Hydros; Software fusion MRI guided biopsy of the Prostate; Prostate related 'Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - LUTS'; General Urology - particularly related to cancer symptoms; 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).
Medical secretaries
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Francesca Mazzola
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- Dr Christopher Edge
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- Dr John Schutzer-Weissmann
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- Dr Stephen Harrison
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- Dr Judith Tomlinson
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- Dr Priya Suaris
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- Dr Orla Lacey
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- Dr Nicholas Owen
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Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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M4510
Diagnostic endoscopic examination of bladder (flexible cystoscopy) +/- any biopsy - ()
HCA Healthcare UK The Harley Street Clinic () GenesisCare, Windsor () The Royal Marsden Hospital () Cromwell Hospital ()
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M6583
Transperineal MRI - US fusion targeted prostate biopsy - ()
The Royal Marsden Hospital () Cromwell Hospital () GenesisCare, Windsor () HCA Healthcare UK The Harley Street Clinic ()
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M7071
Transurethral water jet ablation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia - ()
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M6192
Robotic assisted radical prostatectomy, reconstruction of bladder neck including bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy (including cystoscopy) - ()
Cromwell Hospital () The Royal Marsden Hospital () GenesisCare, Windsor ()
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M4210
Endoscopic resection of lesion of bladder (including cystoscopy) - ()
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