Abstract
Editorial November 2020
Welcome to the final edition of the Journal of Clinical urology for 2020. This issue represents a significant milestone for your Journal in that this is the final printed version of the JCU. As many of you will already know, the decision was made earlier in 2020 to move to an online copy of the JCU only, in keeping with the global trend in medical publishing. I know for many of you this will appear to be a natural evolution for your Journal and you will embrace the online version just as you embraced and nurtured the printed version since its inception. Others may feel but this is a step slightly outside their comfort zone but I can assure you that the move to an online Journal will bring significant advantages for the JCU and I'm certain that you will all both reap the rewards of this and also come to view the online version has a more nimble, agile and mobile version of your Journal.
I hope that you will have experienced and enjoyed the digital the format of the Journal for both the last issue in September and also this current issue. I'm extremely keen to receive feedback to determine whether or not this is a future direction of for the Journal and I would therefore be grateful for any comments that you may have and I'm also grateful to you for filling in the dedicated feedback survey.
I feel it would be impossible to comment on 2020 without significant mention of the dominant facet of the past year, namely the coronavirus pandemic. This pandemic has had far reaching effects both personally and professionally for everyone in the world and continues to do so. Everyone in urology and in the wider healthcare community has had to adapt to a new way of working, new ways meeting and new ways of communicating with patients and colleagues. This has created an enormous burden on everyone concerned and yet despite this, colleagues have still found time in their extremely busy lives to contribute to your Journal to a far greater extent than ever before. Submissions to the JCU have increased over the last 12 months quite significantly whilst the time spent in the peer review process has declined. This is a testament not only to authors and reviewers but also to all concerned in the production of your Journal my grateful thanks go to everyone involved.
a full return to the way of life we enjoyed prior to the pandemic appears at this juncture to be unlikely but I very much hope that the near future will see some elements of normality returned to us all. I would like to take this opportunity rather than to highlights this issues excellent articles, but to offer my condolences for those who have lost friends and loved ones in this pandemic, my admiration for those amongst us who have been redeployed beyond urology during the height of the pandemic and my sincere wish to you all that you remain safe and return to some semblance of normality in the very near future.
Have a restful festive season and I look forward to welcoming you back in 2021 with more excellent offerings from the JCU