The Royal Stoke University Hospital is set to become the UK's largest robotic surgery centre, bosses have said, following a £12m investment from the Denise Coates Foundation.
The funding would significantly expand access to advanced robotic surgery across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, they added.
The move is expected to benefit more than 1,000 patients per year and assist with a range of complex procedures - including emergency and heart surgery.
The hospital said it would also become the first in the UK to introduce new technology to enable surgeons to feel tissue resistance in real time.
The advances would improve control, reduce unnecessary force and support safer and more precise surgery, and enable the Royal Stoke to move closer to becoming a centre of excellence for robotics.
