{"id":376043,"date":"2026-01-18T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:04:09","slug":"new-royal-stoke-x-ray-at-home-service-keeping-you-out-of-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376043\/","title":{"rendered":"New Royal Stoke ‘x-ray at home’ service keeping you out of A&E"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will bring the vital service directly to your home<\/p>\n

(Image: Pete Stonier \/ Stoke Sentinel)<\/p>\n

Residents are set to benefit from a new service designed to reduce unnecessary visits to the Royal Stoke’s A&E Department. The new ‘X-Ray at Home’ mobile service will provide faster, more convenient diagnostic imaging for patients in the comfort of their own home, according to University Hospitals North Midlands (UHNM).<\/p>\n

The team will be able to see patients across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire, offering a professional helpline for West Midlands Ambulance Service and community teams to refer patients who are able to have an x-ray within their own home.<\/p>\n

A senior radiographer and a support worker will be able to see patients in their own homes or care home alongside the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS) team, an integrated service provided by both UHNM and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) for patients at risk of needing an admission to hospital.<\/p>\n

Laura Greenwood, Superintendent Radiographer, said: \u201cThis is such an exciting time for radiography and UHNM as it is something that we have never done before. It\u2019s fantastic that we have been given the opportunity to make a positive difference in the community. For a lot of patients, coming to hospital can be extremely disruptive so being able to make their care much easier for them is really important.<\/p>\n

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(Image: Pete Stonier \/ Stoke Sentinel)<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that X-Ray at home is the future of radiography and hope to grow the fleet of mobile vans and therefore the amount of patients we are able to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rob Gordon, Head of Imaging at UHNM said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to see this new community-based service come into place. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve been working towards for a long time, ensuring that patients who don\u2019t need to attend A&E can still access the care they require closer to home.<\/p>\n

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(Image: Pete Stonier \/ Stoke Sentinel)<\/p>\n

\u201cAlongside the CRIS team we\u2019re confident this service will enhance the overall patient experience, not only by reducing unnecessary hospital visits, but also by easing demand on ambulance services in the community, creating wider benefits for everyone.\u201d The X-Ray vehicle has been funded by the generosity of UHNM Charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will bring the vital service directly to your home (Image: Pete Stonier \/ Stoke Sentinel) Residents are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,104,23555,56,54,55,85680],"class_list":["post-376043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-nhs","tag-royal-stoke-university-hospital","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-midlands-ambulance-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376043","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=376043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}