{"id":744989,"date":"2026-08-21T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:54:09","slug":"its-a-bit-odd-at-first-the-robot-helping-with-nhs-health-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744989\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a bit odd at first&#8217;: The robot helping with NHS health checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ged&#8217;s GP &#8211; Dr Gillian Chin &#8211; believes robots could play a key role in freeing up healthcare staff to see &#8220;more patients, more quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her surgery took part in a two-day trial called HEART-POD, a collaboration with scientists at the National Robotarium at Heriot Watt University, who developed a prototype robot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, 12 patients living with cardiovascular conditions took part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the trial, the robot carried out basic checks such as blood pressure monitoring, oxygen saturation as well as weight measurements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robot, which currently has an American accent, greets the patient in the waiting room and takes them to an examination room where it talks them through tasks such as how to unwrap the blood pressure cup, place their arm flat on the table and start the monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teme then speaks to the patients before printing out the results so they can be taken to the nurse or GP for further discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ged&#8217;s GP &#8211; Dr Gillian Chin &#8211; believes robots could play a key role in freeing up healthcare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744989","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\/744989","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=744989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}