{"id":740632,"date":"2026-08-17T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:22:08","slug":"former-porter-has-first-robotic-knee-surgery-at-cannock-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740632\/","title":{"rendered":"Former porter has first robotic knee surgery at Cannock hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former porter has become the first patient to have robot-assisted knee replacement surgery at a Staffordshire hospital &#8211; going home to recover on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Hall, 67, who had the procedure at Cannock hospital, had experienced intense pain that was affecting his day-to-day life, leaving him unable to enjoy his hobbies, such as walking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The patient has been back at home for about three weeks and said he could sometimes walk with no crutches&#8221;, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the surgeons who carried out the operation, consultant trauma, sports knee and orthopaedic surgeon for the trust, Ejaz Mughal, said robotic surgery &#8220;operates to within a millimetre precision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;There is less likelihood of revisions because of this precision and less surgery trauma for patients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They can be in and out of hospital in the same day, recovering at home, which is where they want to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former porter has become the first patient to have robot-assisted knee replacement surgery at a Staffordshire hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740632","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\/740632","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=740632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}