EDWARD ROWE

Southmead Hospital in Bristol, Weston General Hospital in Weston-super-Mare

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM:

‘Not just technically excellent but has genuine warmth for his patients, too,’ one of his peers told us. ‘He’s a high-volume surgeon [ performs large numbers of prostatectomies] and gets excellent results’ — in other words, with good control of the cancer, low rate of complications and patients retaining good erectile function and continence, too. ‘His unit is one of the highest volume units in the country.’

‘He always has the best interests of his patients at heart and there is absolutely no ulterior financial motive in anything he does,’ says another surgeon. ‘He would always resist being too ready to operate — privately this can be lucrative work — but the same can’t be said for all urologists.’

PRIVATE PRACTICE:

Spire Bristol Hospital, The Waterside Suite, Weston General Hospital (private care).