You are kindly invited to a one-day event at the Royal College of Surgeons on Optimising Use of Robot-Assisted Surgery: Challenges and Opportunities. The aim is to bring together healthcare professionals, policy makers, and researchers to discuss how to integrate robot-assisted surgery into practice. Presentations will draw on a recently completed three year project funded by the National Institute for Health Research’s Health Services & Delivery Research programme, which ran alongside the ROLARR trial (RObotic versus LAparoscopic Resection for Rectal cancer). Topics will include how robot-assisted surgery impacts teamwork in the operating theatre, how robot-assisted surgery changes the roles of team members, and issues of training and skill mix.

Attendance is free but places are limited.

A draft programme is provided below.

9:30 Registration and coffee

9:45 Introductory session - Professor David Jayne, University of Leeds

10:15 Presentation 1: Integrating robot-assisted surgery into practice - Dr Rebecca Randell, University of Leeds

11:00 Presentation 2: Communication and teamwork in robot-assisted surgery - Professor Jon Hindmarsh, King's College London

11:45 Coffee

12:00 Interactive session: Analysing a video clip

12:45 Lunch

1:30 Presentation 3: Changing roles in robot-assisted surgery - Dr Rebecca Randell, University of Leeds

2:15 Presentation 4: Simulation in robot-assisted surgery - Arron Gill, Edge Hill University

2:30 Coffee

2:45 Panel session and closing remarks

3:30 Close