Mr Coombs is a Charing Cross graduate, trained and dual accredited in General surgery and Urology in East Anglia and Bloomsbury rotation (Stoke Mandeville and UCH). He is also a Marie Curie clinical research fellow and an MD in molecular biology of bladder cancer. He was subsequently a trial Calman trainee and was accredited again in Urology Leeds Rotation. Mr Coombs is a first accredited pure Urologist (consultant) at Scunthorpe and Grimsby hospitals (1998-current post) and was in-reach Urologist (major pelvic surgery -prostate and bladder cancer) at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals (2007-2018). He remains the site specific lead for urological malignancy NLAG and has trained in Micro Surgery (vasectomy reversal).