Explore why second opinions are so helpful and why we offer an initial free telephone advice service with one of our experienced nurse specialists.
We are BPS
Birmingham Prostate Specialists
We’re one of the UK’s most progressive prostate clinics, with experts including highly respected consultant urologist Alan Doherty and specialist oncologist Dan Ford. Our Birmingham-based multidisciplinary team treats patients nationally and internationally, offering personalised advice and care shaped by the priorities that matter to you.
What we do
We’re here to listen with compassion and help with skill. We’ll take time to get to know you and explore your options, finding an approach that both suits your priorities and delivers great clinical results.
Advice and education
Precision diagnostics
Why do we prefer a targeted MRI fusion biopsy to the more traditional methods used in most other centres? When is a PSMA PET scan or genomic testing the right way forward? Get the answers you need.
Focal therapies
See how new minimally invasive treatments, including High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and NanoKnife, can target cancer while preserving your erectile function.
Prostate cancer surgery
We perform a high volume of procedures, specialising in high-quality outcomes including nerve-sparing techniques. Explore our approach.
Radiation therapy
We offer targeted cancer treatments that include:
- - MR-Linac
- - SABR/CyberKnife
- - PSMA theranostics
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) care
How can effective treatments from GreenLight laser to Aquablation therapy and prostate artery embolisation help you manage this common condition?
Outstanding results
At BPS, we’re proud of our results and are always clear, transparent, and honest about the outcomes we think we can achieve for you too. Take a look.
Expert collaboration, exceptional outcomes
Meet our team
Whatever you need, we’re here for you, offering carefully coordinated care shaped by extensive clinical experience and expertise spanning urology, oncology, radiology and specialist nursing.
Alan Doherty
BPS founder and consultant urologist
Dan Ford
Specialist prostate oncologist
David Fackrell
Specialist in prostate, bladder and kidney cancers
John Parkin
Consultant urologist
Hariom Sur
Consultant urologist
Mary Kirkham
Nurse specialist
Ian McCafferty
Radiologist
Paul Crowe
Radiologist
Meet Alan
One of the UK’s most renowned prostate cancer specialists, twice voted top 10 in the country by his urology peers
Mr Alan Doherty is a well-known consultant urologist with over 25 years’ clinical experience. In that time, he’s completed nearly 4,000 radical prostatectomies.
For the past five years, he’s enthusiastically offered HIFU and NanoKnife focal therapies to selected patients in collaboration with the Focal Therapy Clinic. He’s now excited to be working with HCA Healthcare UK, which is also committed to delivering exceptional care.
Alan is always transparent about his outcomes. He works in a team that includes highly experienced urology nurse specialists, providing a holistic, personal approach that’s always here for you from the moment you first get in touch.
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We’re here to help
If you have worrying symptoms you’d like to get checked, need a second opinion or just want a free chat with one of our nurse specialists, get in touch. Our friendly team will take care of the rest.