Mr Benjamin Lamb

Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon Mr Ben Lamb MBBS MA PhD. FRCS (Urol.) specialises in prostate cancer and has carried out more than 400 robotic operations in his career. By adopting a patient-centred philosophy, he uses his surgical skills in the most beneficial way.

Mr Lamb is a consultant at Barts Health and UCLH NHS Trusts having moved to London in 2022 from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge where he had been a consultant since 2018. Having studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (MA) and the University of London (MBBS), he gained a PhD from Imperial College, London in 2011. Mr Ben Lamb undertook his specialist urology training in London before undertaking a fellowship in urological oncology and robotic surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Ben is Prostate Cancer Lead at Barts Health.

Mr Lamb is experienced in treating a range of urological conditions, including prostate cancer; raised PSA; lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS); urinary tract infection (UTI); blood in the urine (haematuria) and semen (haematospermia); scrotal/penile lumps; chronic pelvic pain.

Ben offers consultations to explain test results or answer any urological questions, meticulously outlines the advantages and risks of any procedure.

In addition to his clinical work, Mr Lamb is on the executive committee of the BAUS section of Oncology. Mr Lamb is involved in MDT (multidisciplinary cancer teams) research, and has written and presented on leadership, decision-making, and non-technical skills in this area. He finds teaching students, healthcare professionals and doctors about communication skills, MDT improvement and urological cancers very rewarding