Mr Peter Cooke

Mr Peter Cooke MB ChB MD FRCS England FRCS Ireland FRCS (Urology) is a leading urological surgeon and cancer specialist at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. He is the Clinical Lead in Urology for the Black Country and West Birmingham Integrated Care System, chair of the Trust Senior Medical Staff Committee, and chair of the West Midlands Cancer Alliance Urology Expert Advisory Group. Former roles include Urology Clinical Director, chair of the Specialist Multidisciplinary Team, and member of the Trust Cancer Board. He is the leading robotic surgeon in the Midlands region and has personally performed over 1500 complex urological cases.  He is ranked among the top 20 prostate cancer surgeons in the UK, in the Daily Mail Good Doctor guide 2018. He has performed over 1000 robotic prostatectomies. NHS data in 2022 showed that the length of hospital stay in the Black Country for prostatectomy and cystectomy (bladder removal) were both the lowest in the country.  He was the first surgeon in any speciality to offer da Vinci robot-assisted surgery in the Midlands region. In 2010/11 he led the introduction of robotic surgery at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, and through his clinical vision, leadership and commitment to surgical excellence, set the standard in surgical precision for other surgeons to follow. He graduated from Birmingham University in 1989 and trained in general and urological surgery all around the West Midlands.  He has undertaken specialist training in laparoscopic and robotic surgery in Birmingham, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Hamburg and Nashville, USA. He was appointed to the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in 2003 and over 20 years has striven to develop the urological laparoscopy and robotic team there. It was the first unit in the Midlands region offering the full range of complex robotic surgery, receiving tertiary referrals from consultant urologist colleagues on a weekly basis from a wide geographical area across the West Midlands, Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, and provides team training and expertise to other centres.  His academic interests are in prostate and bladder cancer, being cited in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering in 2001. He was awarded the higher degree of Doctor of Medicine in 2001 for his research on novel treatments for bladder cancer, carried out at the prestigious Institute for Cancer Studies at Birmingham University. He has numerous publications in respected international journals including the Lancet, and has presented his work at national and international meetings in Europe and USA. 

Prostate cancer diagnostics, general urological investigation. Complex surgery for prostate and bladder cancer, including robotic prostatectomy, cystectomy and neobladder reconstruction. Surgery for benign prostate enlargement, circumcision and scrotal lumps