Surgeons at the Mater Hospital have completed the 1000th robotics-assisted surgery recently.

 

Funded with the support of the Mater Hospital Foundation, the Robotic Surgical Programme is now in its fifth year, having been launched in 2019. The hospital recently secured a state-of-the-art Da Vinci XI robot.

   

Since its launch, the programme has improved outcomes for cancer patients and their families and has expanded to involve 16 surgeons across six specialities, including urology, cardiothoracic, colorectal, head and neck, gynaecology and hepatobiliary.

 

As a national university training hospital, the Mater Hospital plays a key role in building robotics expertise for Irish healthcare. 

 

Mr Greg Nason, Consultant Urologist in the Mater Hospital who performed the 1000th surgery, said: “The Robotic Programme in the Mater has been a great success thanks to the Mater Hospital Foundation's generosity. The expertise that has been established within the hospital from a nursing and medical perspective has allowed us to offer a multi-speciality programme to our patients. Within urology, robotic surgery is now the standard for most major prostate and bladder cancers as well as many kidney cancers.”