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Robotic surgeries set to soar under NHS plans
- In 2023/24, the NHS in England performed approximately 70,000 robot-assisted surgeries, including complex cancer-related procedures.
- This growth follows plans to expand robotic surgery to expedite patient care, with expectations to reach half a million surgeries annually by 2035.
- Robotic surgery offers greater dexterity and faster recovery, which reduces hospital stays and helps relieve pressure on NHS services and waiting times.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who underwent robot-assisted surgery for kidney cancer, emphasized that cutting-edge technologies are key to modernizing the NHS and improving patient outcomes more rapidly.
- The NHS aims to make robotic surgery the default for keyhole operations, contributing to shorter elective waiting times pledged for 2029 and improved treatment capacity.
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Progress in medicine leads, among other things, to the fact that difficult operations are safer and easier to perform. One example is robot systems that enable surgeons to refrain from large cuts in the chest and abdomen, for example, in demanding procedures on the heart, liver or stomach, and instead to operate through only about two centimetres of access.
NHS unveils new plan for robots to carry out millions more hospital surgeries
Nine in ten of all UK keyhole surgeries - such as the removal of certain organs affected by cancer - will be delivered using robots in the next 10 years, up from one in five used today
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