Robotic Centre of Excellence

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Robotic Centre of Excellence offers multi-platform, multi-specialty surgical robotic training for the whole theatre team at all levels. Our Robotic Fellowships, Visiting Professional Programmes and Observerships are led by a world-class faculty and trainers

About us

Our History

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is an internationally renowned teaching organisation, and home to the largest surgical robotic centre in the UK. With this history in education excellence alongside our leading faculty, we are uniquely placed to provide robotic training across nine surgical specialties, consisting of both benign, complex, cancer, adults and children’s services.

GSTT Robotics Timeline and World Firsts

Guy’s and St Thomas’ has been a leader in the field of robotics for many years, with the first case performed in 2003. Throughout the rapid growth and evolution of the robotic arena, we have demonstrated a continued commitment to pioneering evaluation, training and implementation of new robotic platforms.

Thus far, the Trust has 11 robotic systems, both therapeutic and diagnostic and has achieved a number of significant milestones, including:

GSTT Robotics Education offer

Since 2024, GSTT have offered regular platform agnostic training across our services and supported by industry partners in the form of our RoboSTART and RoboREADY courses. These courses are run in collaboration with the International Medical Robotics Academy (IMRA), based in Melbourne Australia and include simulation, dry lab and wet lab components.

TRoboSTART

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Learning Outcomes

RoboREADY

Advanced procedure-specific specialty: Pyeloplasty Course

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Aims

Learning Outcomes

Fellowships

In addition, our surgical teams offer a variety of highly competitive robotic Fellowships in Thoracic surgery robotics both in person and virtually.

Industry Partnerships

Over the course of the years, we have developed strong relationships with our industry partners who support us in delivering our wide-ranging robotic programme and educational events. These relationships uniquely place us to streamline implementation, drive development and evaluation, and deliver high-quality training.

GSTT Robotics Research Opportunities

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is part of King’s Health Partners to bring together research, education and clinical practice across three NHS Foundation Trusts – Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley – and a world-leading university, King’s College London. This opportunity affords us the incredible opportunity to utilise the world-class Surgical Intervention and Engineering validation suite and the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering lab for robotic training and evaluation.

Lead faculty

GSTT Robotics News

‘R2-D2 did my surgery!’: Grandmother thrilled by ground-breaking robot operation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ – Southwark News

News Article | Evelina London

New surgical robot makes UK debut at Guy’s and St Thomas’ | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Lives transformed by new robotic surgery | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

The future of surgery: Guy’s and St Thomas’ give robotics masterclass | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

World first cancer surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Largest robotic surgery programme in UK to tackle COVID backlog | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using robot | The Standard

Robots used for lung cancer surgery | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

First NHS use of 3D printing for robotic surgery | Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

London surgeons complete record week’s worth of operations in one day | The Standard

The GiST – issue 44.pdf

The GiST issue 42 November 2023.pdf

GSTH 1402 GiST 41 – DRAFT 08A (PRINT) .pdf

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/surgeon-saves-life-with-help-of-virtual-hand-half-a-world-away-265w0bwq7