West Cumberland Hospital invests £350,000 in a robot that can help distribute and manage medication.
The robot is operating alongside staff at West Cumberland Hospital
A hospital is hoping a "state-of-the-art" robot will help free up its staff to spend time with patients. West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, Cumbria, has invested £350,000 in a robot to help pharmacy staff. It can distribute and manage large amounts of medicine and has robotically-controlled arms, hospital bosses said.Image source,The site's pharmacy team helps other hospitals and clinicsNamed the "dispensing robot", it is capable of picking individual items for prescriptions as they are required.The North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust said it would eventually allow staff to spend more time on the wards.
"The robot will speed up the process of issuing stock medicines to patients, wards and our community hospitals".This hospital is not the first to adopt robotic technology to help its patients.
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