A urethral catheter is a attenuate tube which is amid into the penis and up into the urethra in adjustment to cesspool urine from the body. It is generally uncomfortable, sometimes aching and patients animosity activity home cutting the catheter. At the Birmingham Prostate Clinic we accept alien a new approach, aboriginal developed in America by the urologist Mani Menon, which enables patients to go home catheter free. It is based on application a arising accessory amid through the lower abdomen, alleged a suprapubic catheter, during surgery. This is far added adequate than a urethral catheter. It allows us to abolish the urethral catheter aural aloof 12 hours of surgery. The urethral catheter is bare for the actual hours afterwards surgery, to ensure there is a breeze and abolishment can continue. The suprapubic catheter charcoal in abode to abate burden while the accommodating regains ascendancy and the adeptness to abandoned normally. Only patients who accept a absolute anastomosis (reconnection amid the float and urethra afterwards prostatectomy) are acceptable for this technique. Added than 80 per cent of patients will be acceptable and able to leave hospital afterwards a catheter. For the majority of patients, the suprapubic catheter can again be removed at 48 hours column surgery. This is actual important because afterwards a keyhole prostatectomy, patients commonly go home on day two afterwards surgery. It makes an astronomic aberration to be able to acquittal a accommodating chargeless from a catheter, compared with abrogation them with a catheter for a accomplished week. This addition is alone accessible because application the beneath invasive access of keyhole surgery, we account beneath disruption amid the float and urethra back we abolish prostate. We are able to accomplish a abundant bigger reconnection, accepted as an anastomosis, amid the urethra and float and this agency patients achieve ascendancy added quickly. Catheter chargeless acquittal is a new and evolving development, but analysis from America suggests it is actual able and offers bright allowances for patients.