Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust Rocky Appeal is endeavouring to raise £1-1.6 million to provide a state-of-the-art robot and training module to use in one of our digital keyhole surgery theatres.

The use of a ‘Da Vinci Robot Assistant’ is a major advance in surgery that will compliment our other keyhole surgery theatres. It allows keyhole surgery in a 3D environment, with the Consultant Surgeon sitting at a console controlling the robot at the patient’s side.

So what does this mean for our patient’s?
This will allow the surgeon to do keyhole surgery in difficult confined areas with more precision and safety than ever before. The surgical robot enhances the ability of the surgeon, who works at a console controlling the robot. The surgeon will be virtually ‘inside’ the patient, with an unprecedented view of the organs.

It will extend keyhole surgery to head and neck conditions (throat and thyroid cancers), prostate and uterine cancers, and complex cancers of the gut. Patients with these types of cancer may be considered for robotic surgery as this will allow surgery to be performed and major open surgery can be avoided allowing for a faster recovery.

“Once we achieve our goal we will be one of a few hospitals in the country to offer these services, makingQueenAlexandraHospitalone of the best in the area,” says Mick Lyons, Trust Fund Raising Co-ordinator, Rocky Appeal.

If you would like to contribute to The Rocky Appeal, please call 023 9228 6487.