Annual Trainee Doctors’ Prize Evening Thursday 20th November 2014

摘要

IntroductionCircumcision is an operation performed worldwide. Indications are either therapeutic such as phimosis or non-therapeutic, that is; in the name of culture or in the name of God. The BMA has recommended that circumcision only be performed were therapeutic indications are present and as such Primary Care Trusts in both England and Wales make independent decisions about whether to provide a circumcision service when it is requested on cultural grounds. Here in Northern Ireland these continue to be conducted in the NHS. The aims of this study were two-fold. Firstly: to determine the indication with which circumcision was performed on boys in Northern Ireland in a 16 month period. Secondly: to estimate the cost of cultural circumcision to the NHS.