{"id":380739,"date":"2026-01-20T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:14:10","slug":"kent-hospitals-surgical-robot-helps-record-numbers-of-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380739\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent hospital&#8217;s surgical robot helps record numbers of patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The procedure, known as a cholecystectomy, is traditionally carried out with keyhole surgery which usually allows staff to complete five operations a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the surgical team completed the procedure on seven patients thanks to the robot, which was controlled by the surgeon and gave them greater precision<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust spokesperson said: &#8220;Being able to provide gallbladder surgery to more people, more quickly, means better care for patients, as they experience fewer bouts of inflammation and fewer visits to A&amp;E during flare-ups.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380739","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=380739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}