April 2025: The NCCP have published the HSE National Clinical Guideline: The Use of Focal Therapy in Patients with Prostate Cancer. This guideline can be found below.
April 2025: The NCCP have updated the active surveillance section of the National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer.
The updated section ‘Active Surveillance for patients with prostate cancer (2025)’ can be found below. Please note the updated section (2025) now supersedes the recommendations of the active surveillance section within the National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer (2015).
June 2022: The NCCP have updated the radiology and diagnosis sections of the National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer.
The updated section ‘Diagnosis and Staging of patients with prostate cancer (2022)’ can be found below. Please note the updated section (2022) now supersedes the recommendations of the diagnostic section within the National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer (2015).
National Clinical Guidelines
HSE National Clinical Guideline: The Use of Focal Therapy in Patients with Prostate Cancer (2025)
Access on the HSE National Central Repository:
https://www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation/national-pppgs/hse-national-clinical-guideline-the-use-of-focal-therapy-in-patients-with-prostate-cancer/
HSE National Clinical Guideline: Active Surveillance for patients with prostate cancer (2025)
Access on the HSE National Central Repository:
https://www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation/national-pppgs/hse-national-clinical-guideline-active-surveillance-for-patients-with-prostate-cancer/
HSE National Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and staging of patients with Prostate Cancer (2022)
Access on the HSE National Central Repository:
https://www2.healthservice.hse.ie/organisation/national-pppgs/national-clinical-guideline-diagnosis-and-staging-of-patients-with-prostate-cancer/
Follow up protocol to monitor for biochemical prostate cancer recurrence (2023)
Available on the NCCP website:
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/profinfo/guidelines/prostate/prostate-surveillance-published-v1-pca-f2.pdf
National Clinical Guideline No. 8 Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment of Patients with Prostate Cancer (2015)
Access on the Department of Health website:
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/26ce6e-diagnosis-staging-and-treatment-of-patients-with-prostate-cancer/
Consensus Statement
Prostate Cancer Moderate Hypofractionation Interim Recommendations Consensus Group Statement June 2023
Policy
NCCP National Policy on the Prevention and Management of Infection Post Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS Guided Prostate Biopsy) (2014)
Last updated: 10/04/2025
