Mobile X-ray service to bring diagnostics to your door

Currently operating in nursing homes, the firm could become the first in Europe to offer such services to people in their own homes

Mary Jones, a qualified nurse and founder of Dublin company Mobile Medical Diagnostics Pic: Fergal Phillips

Her profession, combined with her personal experience caring for elderly parents, prompted nurse Mary Jones to set up a new venture two years ago offering mobile X-ray services to care home residents in Ireland.

“I was the manager of the eye department at Blackrock [Clinic] when I came up with the idea,” said Jones.

“My dad was in a nursing home at the time. He had Parkinson’s and he was quite disabled. My ...