{"id":419085,"date":"2026-04-26T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:47:09","slug":"first-patient-at-a-limerick-hospital-to-undergo-robot-assisted-surgery-i-was-home-that-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419085\/","title":{"rendered":"First patient at a Limerick hospital to undergo robot-assisted surgery \u2013 \u2018I was home that day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">An innovative new programme at St John&#8217;s Hospital is changing the way surgeries are carried out\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured at the launch of the Versius robotic surgery system launched at St John\u2019s Hospital Limerick was Emer Martin, CEO, St John\u2019s Hospital. St John\u2019s is now the first model 2 hospital in Ireland offering robotic-assisted procedures to public patients and the first hospital in Ireland to launch the Versius platform. Made possible through a \u20ac2.5 million donation from the JP McManus Pro-Am 2022, this initiative will mean reduced pain, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery times for patients across the Mid West.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/193c2a57-e594-4821-9f52-2c9b26f32245.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pictured at the launch of the Versius robotic surgery system launched at St John\u2019s Hospital Limerick was Emer Martin, CEO, St John\u2019s Hospital. St John\u2019s is now the first model 2 hospital in Ireland offering robotic-assisted procedures to public patients and the first hospital in Ireland to launch the Versius platform. Made possible through a \u20ac2.5 million donation from the JP McManus Pro-Am 2022, this initiative will mean reduced pain, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery times for patients across the Mid West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A new robotic-assisted surgery programme at St John\u2019s Hospital in the heart of Limerick city has broadened patient access to advanced precision technology associated with improved outcomes and shorter recovery times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While robotic-assisted surgery has been available in Ireland for over a decade, it has predominantly been used in private hospitals and major teacher hospitals such as those under the the Mater Private Network, making St John\u2019s Hospital in Limerick the first model 2 hospital in Ireland to offer such procedures to public patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An innovative new programme at St John&#8217;s Hospital is changing the way surgeries are carried out Pictured at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12212,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-419085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-edana-flynn","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}