Mr Neil Barber Consultant Profile
Having been appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon to Frimley Park Hospital in 2005, Neil Barber is Clinical Lead for Urology at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Director of the Frimley Renal Cancer Centre and the Frimley Benign Prostate Clinical Research Centre.
Neil has a specialist interest in the treatment of Benign Prostate Enlargement using minimally invasive techniques and was the first surgeon to routinely offer Aquablation to patients in the UK, having been instrumental in the development of the technology in formal trials and its introduction to the NHS in 2019. He has treated some 300 patients and this year presented the 5 year study data of the WATER trials on the global stage. Neil introduced Greenlight laser prostatectomy to the UK in 2002 and more recently both Urolift in 2014 and iTIND in 2019 to the NHS and has been involved in all formal trials relating to new devices in the treatment of BPH over the last 15 years as well as acting as specialist advisor to NICE developing guidelines on plasma TURP, Greenlight laser, Urolift, Rezum and most recently iTIND. Beyond that, Neil has developed a specialist team in the delivery of surgical solutions for kidney disorders, primarily involving renal cancer but also other conditions of the upper urinary tract including PUJ obstruction using novel robotic techniques. Being director of that team now delivering the highest annual volume of robotic partial nephrectomies in the UK.