4-skin Health
Information for patients, parents and healthcare professionals
Information for all ages
This website has been created to help get people talking about foreskins!
With information fit for all ages, it will help readers understand what the foreskin is, how to keep it clean and healthy, and provide information, advice and reassurance for anyone with concerns about their, or their child’s, foreskin. Foreskin conditions are not uncommon; there are different types of conditions that can affect foreskins and different options for treating them. Here you will find information about each of these to help you when having conversations with your doctor.
We’ve also included information for doctors so they can keep up to date with the latest options and national guidance for treating foreskin conditions.
About this website
This website was produced under the leadership of Professor Simon Kenny OBE, National Clinical Director – Children and Young People at NHS England and NHS Improvement and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and Dr Rachel Harwood, Paediatric Surgery Registrar at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. It was funded by a grant via Alder Hey Children’s Charity.
Colleagues from a number of bodies supported the project, including: Aruna Abhyankar, University Hospital of Wales; Harriet Corbett, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Mark Davenport, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chris Driver, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital; Rachel Harwood, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Professor Paul Johnson, Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford and Chair of the British Association of Paediatric Surgery Research Committee; Manoj Shenoy, President of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists; Michael Stanton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; Martin Tod, Men’s Health Forum; Nick Wilson-Jones, University Hospital of Wales; Dan Wood, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust; Mark Woodward, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.
About Professor Simon Kenny OBE
Professor Simon Kenny OBE BSc ChB(Hons) MD FRCS(Paed) FAAP
Professor Kenny is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, where he has worked since 2003. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Liverpool, and his research interests include the long-term outcomes in paediatric surgery. Professor Kenny is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Children and Young People and, since 2017, he has been the National Clinical Lead for Paediatric Surgery for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. He is a clinical adviser and board member of the National Clinical Improvement Programme (NCIP) and he chairs the Clinical Outcomes Committee of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.