{"id":241005,"date":"2025-11-03T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:36:27","slug":"the-royal-surrey-hospital-performs-10000th-robotic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Surrey Hospital performs 10,000th robotic surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royal Surrey is the country&#8217;s fourth largest cancer centre, treating more than 8,000 patients each year across the South East of England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It delivers 4,000 chemotherapy treatments, almost 3,500 sessions of radiotherapy, and over 2,000 cancer surgeries annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trust performed just three robotic surgeries in the first year but said the  programme has grown into one of the busiest and most advanced in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, more than 1,500 patients benefitted from robotic surgery, with the Trust saying it performed more prostate surgeries than any other single-site hospital in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consultant Ear Nose and Throat surgeon David Walker said: &#8220;For many years we&#8217;ve been ahead of the curve in terms of driving better technologies for patients  and we know that this creates better outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robot does not replace surgeons but enhances their ability to carry out complex operations via very tiny incisions, with greater accuracy and precision. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The surgeon operates the robot from a control console, performing the procedure using a minimally invasive approach, also known as keyhole surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients benefit from faster recovery, shorter hospital stays, better outcomes and less complications while it also helps the hospital improve efficiency and save bed days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Surrey is the country&#8217;s fourth largest cancer centre, treating more than 8,000 patients each year across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241005","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\/241005","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=241005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}