{"id":1522,"date":"2023-02-12T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cic.vc\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:22:17","slug":"robot-surgery-can-cut-into-nhs-waiting-lists-say-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cic.vc\/robot-surgery-can-cut-into-nhs-waiting-lists-say-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot surgery can cut into NHS waiting lists, say doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-small\">Adopting robotic surgery could free up thousands of beds across the NHS, figures from pioneering trusts suggest. Surgeons were \u201ccrying out for robots\u201d, senior doctors have said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">When compared with traditional open surgery, patients who are operated on by a robot recover more quickly, lose less blood and suffer less scarring, pain and infection, studies have shown. They are also less likely to be readmitted after surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">The machines also reduce the physical strain on surgeons as they operate, potentially extending how long they can work. They sit away from the patient at a special console, which they use to control surgical instruments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">Robots are used across a variety of surgical specialities, with procedures including hysterectomies and bowel cancer tumour removals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">At Milton Keynes hospital use of a surgical robot has freed up 450 bed days, according to figures shown to The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">Writing today in The Times Red Box, Richard Hammond, a senior NHS leader in Hertfordshire, said: \u201cSurgeons at my hospital, and all over the country, are crying out for robots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">He said that they had three robots, but many other hospitals had not taken on the machines and this was leading to inequalities both in \u201caccess to the best treatment and care for patients\u201d and in \u201ca hospital\u2019s ability to reduce the surgical backlog brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, using robotic surgery in gynaecology has on average reduced the length of stay by two days per patient. In urology, post-surgical use of intensive care beds has decreased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">Figures released by the NHS last week showed that people waiting for planned treatment rose to 7.2 million at the end of December, with over 406,000 waiting over a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">Hammond said that as a radiographer he remembered using charity fundraising to buy a CT scanner in the 1990s. \u201cAt the time, CT scanners only existed in London or big teaching hospitals. The government eventually realised the huge potential these scanners had for improving diagnosis, treatment and care and launched a national programme to buy CT scanners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">\u201cIt is inevitable that robotic surgery will become as ubiquitous as CT and MRI scanners are today. We are starting to see this momentum in Wales, who have rolled out a number of Versius robots as part of a national drive to support equal access to innovation across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">\u201cA national strategy for robotic surgery would be welcomed by the NHS, to support the service reduce backlogs, free up beds and reduce health inequalities across England.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">Speaking at a discussion arranged by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cmrsurgical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CMR Surgical<\/a>, who make Versius surgical robots, Professor Jared Torkington, who leads the Wales national robotics assisted surgery programme, said that widespread adoption could improve patient engagement with NHS services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">\u201cThe man and woman in the street \u2018gets\u2019 surgery. If we can use robotics to show people that your local hospital is absolutely at the forefront and this is why you should send your screening tests back, this is why you should see the doctor about your symptoms then we change the game,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">An NHS spokeswoman said: \u201cFrom Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 world first where staff carried out more robotic surgery in one day than ever before, to Maidstone\u2019s state of the art microscope to more easily carry out complex ear surgery, the NHS is already using robotics across the country to tackle the Covid-19 backlog that has inevitably built up during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-small\">\u201cLocal NHS areas will continue to embrace the latest technologies to bring long waits down for patients and actually, it is thanks to the hard work of staff and new innovations that the NHS in England has already virtually eliminated two-year waits and is on track to meet the next milestone of the elective recovery plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting robotic surgery could free up thousands of beds across the NHS, figures from pioneering trusts suggest. 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When compared with traditional open surgery, patients who are operated on by a robot recover more quickly, lose less blood and suffer less scarring, pain and infection, studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[50],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robot surgery can cut into NHS waiting lists, say doctors - Cambridge Innovation Capital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cic.vc\/robot-surgery-can-cut-into-nhs-waiting-lists-say-doctors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robot surgery can cut into NHS waiting lists, say doctors - Cambridge Innovation Capital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adopting robotic surgery could free up thousands of beds across the NHS, figures from pioneering trusts suggest. 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