St James’s Hospital rolls out robot to make cancer drugs

Silicon Republic April 12, 2024
Leigh Mc Gowran

The hospital is using a new robot to boost productivity and a cancer patient recently received a treatment made by this robot.

Robots are making their move into the medical sector, as the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute at St James’s Hospital is now using a robot to make chemotherapy drugs.

The Institute said this compounding robot can supply cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs more efficiently and safely, to boost productivity at the hospital and improve the experience for patients. The Institute also claims St James’s is the first hospital in the UK or Ireland to have a robot conducting this task.

Chemotherapy is traditionally produced using a manual process carried out in pharmacy departments, which requires measurements of doses overseen by...

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