Footnotes

• Contributors RN conceived and wrote the article. RN is the chairperson of the Genitourinary Medicine Specialty Advisory Committee of the Joint Royal Colleges Postgraduate Training Board and a member of the Joint Specialty Committee in Genitourinary Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians, London

• Disclaimer The views expressed are entirely his own and not necessarily representative of any other organisation or individual.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.