{"id":793924,"date":"2026-10-06T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793924\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:04:12","slug":"nhs-diagnostic-centre-could-open-at-worcesters-shrub-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793924\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS diagnostic centre could open at Worcester&#8217;s Shrub Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new multi-million pound NHS centre could be coming to Worcester to help ease pressure on Worcestershire Royal Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Worcestershire County Council is in talks with health bosses about opening a community diagnostic centre at Shrub Hill Quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site would include a range of equipment including a CT scanner, ultrasound, MRI scanner and X-ray suite capable of testing for an array of illnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Adam Kent, the authority&#8217;s deputy leader and cabinet member for finance and business, called it an &#8220;exciting next step&#8221; for the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council is seeking outside investment for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy8mxp2mg2ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major redevelopment of Shrub Hill Quarter<\/a>, land which has been earmarked for 500 homes, office, leisure and retail space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new multi-million pound NHS centre could be coming to Worcester to help ease pressure on Worcestershire Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793924","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=793924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}