Development of a regional urogenital pain network: Sharing good practice.

Within the North East of England, there are an increasing number of complex patients presenting with urogenital pain; many of whom are under the care of multiple specialities. To understand and plan a cohesive strategy for this cohort, we have established a multi-disciplinary regional urogenital pain network meeting. The quarterly meetings allow us to share expertise, best practice and identify areas for improvement with the aim of therefore streamlining the patient journey and enhancing the quality of care patients with urogenital pain receive.

An audit of cervical cytology in HIV-positive women.

Objective: To investigate whether a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus-positive (HIV+) women were having annual cervical cytology as recommended by the English National Health Service cervical screening programme (NHSCSP) guidelines.

Methods: An audit of cervical cytology in an HIV+ cohort of 187 women by obtaining their last cervical cytology result and recall from local cytology services.

Results: Of the 187 women in the audit, two were ineligible, leaving 185 women, 167 (90.

A case of colovesical fistula presenting as non-gonococcal urethritis.

We report an unusual case of a male patient with a colovesical fistula secondary to diverticulitis presenting in the genitourinary medicine clinic as non-gonococcal urethritis.