{"id":467426,"date":"2026-03-10T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467426\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:17:08","slug":"surgery-robot-game-changing-for-cancer-patients-in-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467426\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery robot &#8216;game-changing&#8217; for cancer patients in Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cancer patients are due to benefit from a new surgical robot in Sheffield after a funding boost. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield Hospitals Charity has funded Northern General Hospital&#8217;s da Vinci Xi surgical system with a \u00a31.45m donation &#8211; said to be its largest ever single contribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robot, which is operated by a surgeon, can perform delicate and complex operations with a small number of incisions and with more dexterity than a human hand, according to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beth Crackles, chief executive of the charity, said: &#8220;This is a tremendous boost for cancer patients locally and we are truly grateful to the generosity of the people of Sheffield for making it possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancer patients are due to benefit from a new surgical robot in Sheffield after a funding boost. Sheffield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467426","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\/467426","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=467426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}