{"id":274318,"date":"2026-02-08T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:30:06","slug":"first-patients-have-surgery-using-robot-at-margate-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274318\/","title":{"rendered":"First patients have surgery using robot at Margate hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee, who had part of her bowel removed, said she was assured that the robot had been used elsewhere in Europe with good results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robot has four arms that are operated remotely by the surgeon, who has a 3D-view inside the patient&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was first used by the NHS in London in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stanley Russell, from Herne Bay, was the second patient to have a robotic procedure at the QEQM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also had part of his bowel removed after doctors found a small growth which was cancerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 68-year-old said: &#8220;The team explained everything really well and said it would be less painful than going through more invasive surgery, so that made sense to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had the operation on a Thursday, and went home on the Sunday, and I&#8217;m feeling better every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS National Cancer Plan aims to increase the number of robotic surgeries for cancer patients from 70,000 a year to 500,000 by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee, who had part of her bowel removed, said she was assured that the robot had been used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-274318","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-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}