Mobile X-rays — carried out at home while you're in a favourite armchair

The HSE’s mobile X-ray service is now available in every county. Two families describe how it helped them save time and avoid the stress of attending hospital

Joan Doyle and her mum Margaret Doyle from Kilkenny. Photography: Patrick Browne

Last October Margaret Doyle, 93, sat in her favourite armchair in her living room and had a chest X-ray while looking out at the familiar view of her backyard.

“For me it was wonderful,” she says. “I’d been dreading having to go into hospital and sit in a cold corridor for God knows how long waiting for an X-ray.”