Overview
- Professor Prokar Dasgupta completed two trial remote prostate removals for Gibraltar patients, with the first official UK telesurgery publicised on March 4.
- The connection reported a 0.06‑second delay using a fibre‑optic primary link and a 5G backup, with technology support from Presidio.
- The operations used MicroPort’s Toumai Robotic System, controlled from The London Clinic while the patients and theatre team were at St Bernard’s Hospital.
- Patient Paul Buxton, 62, described himself as the willing first test case and said he felt “fantastic” within days of the procedure.
- Organisers plan a repeat remote operation on March 14 to be livestreamed to about 20,000 surgeons at the European Association of Urology congress.