{"id":227503,"date":"2026-01-08T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/227503\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:21:08","slug":"friarage-surgical-hub-robot-assisted-surgery-marks-milestone-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/227503\/","title":{"rendered":"Friarage Surgical Hub robot-assisted surgery marks milestone procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Andrew Port, who is one of seven consultant surgeons now trained to use the technology, said the investment in the surgical robot &#8220;has transformed NHS care for the better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can now create a plan that is bespoke for every patient and their individual requirements and plan exactly where we want to place the hip or knee, while taking into account the size, shape and rotation, which just wasn&#8217;t possible before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the operation, the robotic arm is controlled by the surgeon, giving them precise control of their instruments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Patients don&#8217;t require as much physiotherapy or rehabilitation and are back to doing the things they love much sooner than expected, with many even forgetting they&#8217;ve even had surgery within six months,&#8221; Port added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said with patients spending less time in hospital, surgeons could carry out more operations &#8220;significantly&#8221; reducing waiting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Andrew Port, who is one of seven consultant surgeons now trained to use the technology,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-227503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}