Urology

The Urology Unit provides inpatient and outpatient services for patients with bladder, kidney, pelvic and prostate disorders. Services are also provided to patients referred from rural and remote areas.

Children are usually managed by paediatricians with referral to Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Procedures and conditions treated

• Genito-urinary trauma
• Benign prostate obstruction
• Benign bladder conditions
• Urinary incontinence
• Benign peno-scrotal conditions
• Kidney stones
• Benign, infective, and inflammatory kidney conditions
• Cancers of the kidney, ureter, bladder, prostate, testis and penis

Special interests

• Robot assisted prostatectomy
• Robot assisted partial nephrectomy
• Prostate brachytherapy
• Percutaneous stone surgery
• Major pelvic cancer surgery
• Holmium enucleation of the prostate
• Sacral nerve root stimulation
• Statewide Pelvic Mesh Clinic
• Reconstructive urology – transitional, functional
• Urodynamics – video-urodynamics and non-video urodynamics
• Statewide neuro-urology (spinal urology) service
• Ureteroscopic – stone surgery
• Interavesical Botox injections.

Outpatient Department, Level 3F.1 (ground floor), Wing 3, Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Check appointment information and screens on arrival at the RAH for the specific location.

Consultants

• Dr Richard Denby Steele – Head of Unit
• Dr Ashani Couchman – Deputy Head of Unit
• Dr John Bolt
• Dr Rick Catterwell
• Dr Jonathon Cho
• Dr Andrew Fuller
• Dr Diwei Lin
• Dr Andrew Shepherd
• Dr Raj Singh-Rai
• Dr Jehan Titus.

Nursing team

• Donna Clifford – Nurse Practitioner
• Hayley Molloy – Functional Urology/Urodynamics Nurse
• Sophie Otto – PCFA Prostate Cancer Nurse
• Daniel Medlicott – Urology Ward Nursing Unit Manager
• Anthony Cuarentas – Urology Theatre Clinical Nurse.

Administration team

• Olivia Siow – Urology Ward Secretary
• Anna Fantarella – Waitlist Co-ordinator Urology.

You need a referral from a GP or medical practitioner to access this service.

Once your referral has been received it will be triaged according to clinical urgency.

If your referral is accepted, you will either:

• receive a letter, phone call or text message confirming your appointment time, date and location
• receive a letter confirming you have been waitlisted for an appointment.

If the referral is declined, your GP or referring medical practitioner will be notified.

Contact us to:

• change your appointment time
• cancel your appointment
• find out triage status
• general outpatient enquiries.

If you need to cancel or change your appointment time, let us know as soon as possible.

We accept GP and specialist referrals to this service.

eReferrals are preferred. 

Use the Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC) as a referral guide. 

To ensure timely triage, include all demographic and clinical details. 

The service triages referrals according to clinical urgency.