Robotic-assisted surgical procedure (RAS) agency Intuitive has opened its new UK and Eire headquarters, which incorporates the UK’s largest da Vinci RAS coaching centre.
The power, which opened in Winnersh Triangle, Berkshire in October 2025, has the capability to offer know-how coaching for da Vinci surgical methods to hundreds extra surgeons.
The 21,000 sq. foot website triples Intuitive’s native footprint and can host the agency’s newest know-how together with the da Vinci 5, Xi and SP Surgical Programs, and the Ion endoluminal system, a robotic-assisted bronchoscopy platform.
David Marante, vp of Intuitive UK and Eire, mentioned: “For 25 years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting hospitals to implement da Vinci RAS programmes within the UK and Eire, working collectively to assist enhance affected person outcomes, improve affected person and care staff expertise, drive productiveness, and decrease the overall price of care.
“Now, with our new expanded regional headquarters and coaching centre, we’re committing to the long run – to increase fairness of entry for sufferers to high quality, minimally invasive care with da Vinci and Ion methods, and to proceed assembly the wants of care groups, hospitals and the NHS.
“The UK authorities has made clear its dedication for extra sufferers to learn from robotic-assisted surgical procedure. We’re right here to assist it ship.”
Since Lord Ara Darzi carried out the UK’s first da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical procedure process in 2000, greater than 300,000 sufferers within the UK and Eire have undergone surgical procedure utilizing da Vinci robots.
The brand new coaching centre is meant to assist obtain the ambition within the authorities’s 10 yr well being plan, for hundreds of thousands extra sufferers to entry RAS over the following decade.
In line with projections from NHS England, half one million operations will probably be supported by RAS yearly by 2035, up from 70,000 in 2023/24.
Dr Myriam Curet, govt vp and chief medical officer at Intuitive, mentioned: “We’re proud to supply complete, ongoing training and coaching that helps clinicians and care groups in integrating our know-how into affected person care.
“As entry to minimally invasive care continues to develop, we’re deepening our roots in Europe to proceed supporting profitable da Vinci and Ion programmes now and into the long run.”
The coaching centre was opened by Zubir Ahmed, well being minister, and Kanishka Narayan, science minister, who used the fifth technology da Vinci 5 Surgical System to chop the ribbon.
Ahmed mentioned: “As an NHS surgeon and somebody who carried out robotic surgical procedure early in its evolution, I do know first-hand the potential of robotic surgical methods like these.
“This new coaching centre will profit hundreds extra surgeons and their sufferers, as we shift healthcare from analogue to digital and construct an NHS that’s match for the long run.
“Our 10 yr well being plan will guarantee sufferers get entry to the newest improvements, increasing the usage of robotic surgical procedure, to ship higher, safer care.”
In Might 2025, NHSE revealed its first nationwide steering on how robotic programmes ought to be delivered.
