Bruce Montgomery
Consultant Urological Surgeon
Frimley Park Hospital
Bruce trained at UCH, qualified in 1981 and was appointed to Frimley Park and Basingstoke Hospitals in June 1994. His early training years included a period at St Thomas’ as the first surgical SHO working for Prof Sir Norman Browse.
Two years surgical training in Poole, convinced him he wanted to specialise in Urology and he then went to Frimley Park as a Registrar. After that it was back to St Thomas' for more training and research into bladder physiology (recording electrical signals from individual human bladder muscle cells – the first person to do so!) before his Consultant appointment to Frimley in 1994.
He already had an interest in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and prostate cancer and has subsequently trained the country’s first independently practicing nurse, Sister Donna Higgins, who is able to do TRUS biopsies.
Bruce and Donna have now developed a unit to fast-track patients to diagnosis and treatment. A founder member of our patient support group, he also runs courses to train other nurses and doctors to do TRUS.