Hospital installs new simulator

A simulator laboratory will be set up at the hospital next year

A hospital has installed a simulator for carrying out ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist surgical procedures.

Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital believes it may be one of only two UK medical centres with such a device.

Medics load patients' CT scans into a computer and then perform simulated surgery via a control stick while viewing the operation with 3D glasses.

Next year a simulator laboratory will be set up at the hospital so more procedures can be practised this way.