{"id":171257,"date":"2025-09-30T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171257\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:10:35","slug":"hospital-says-toy-mri-scanner-helps-save-150k-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171257\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital says toy MRI scanner helps save \u00a3150k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A toy MRI scanner, designed to put children at ease before real scans, has saved \u00a3150,000 in sedation and care costs, health officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Kitten Scanner at Grantham District Hospital is a miniature version of an MRI machine and allows young children to pretend to scan toys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandy Crook, play leader from the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS group, said the scanner had been &#8220;overwhelmingly successful&#8221; since it was purchased two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know from speaking to many parents they are thankful for the Kitten Scanner and that their little ones don&#8217;t need to go through sedation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A toy MRI scanner, designed to put children at ease before real scans, has saved \u00a3150,000 in sedation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-171257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}