{"id":233532,"date":"2025-10-30T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:12:09","slug":"largest-robotic-surgery-training-centre-opens-in-winnersh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233532\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest robotic surgery training centre opens in Winnersh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are more than 200 da Vinci surgical systems being used in hospitals in the UK and Ireland with more than 300,000 patients having being operated on by surgeons using the machines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is referred to as robotic-assisted surgery but it is very much controlled by an experienced, qualified surgeon who manipulates the instruments using a different part of the machine to allow us to do the surgery.&#8221; Said Gijs van Boxel, consultant surgeon at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The surgeon operates the arms of the machine by sitting at a console and viewing a magnified, high definition, 3D screen, moving the robot arms using finger movements.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels futuristic but the concept of robotic-assisted surgery is not a new one, the development that&#8217;s gone into this over the various iterations has been extensive, lots of lessons have been learnt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are more than 200 da Vinci surgical systems being used in hospitals in the UK and Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233532","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}