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Legal action threat over wheelchair service’s ‘bullying, delays and poor service’

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Independent Living

Legal action threat over wheelchair service’s ‘bullying, delays and poor service’
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Wheelchair-users in Kent are threatening to take legal action over growing concerns about delays, poor service and even bullying and harassment by the company running the NHS wheelchair services contract in the county.  Four disability groups – Kent’s Physical Disability Forum […]

Finding a wheelchair ‘is expensive, time-consuming and rarely straightforward’

By John Pring on 16th November 2017 Category: Independent Living

Finding a wheelchair ‘is expensive, time-consuming and rarely straightforward’
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Choosing and funding a wheelchair is expensive and time-consuming, and often results in the purchase of unsuitable and uncomfortable equipment, according to new research by a user-led charity. A survey by the spinal cord injury charity Back Up found that nearly […]

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

By John Pring on 28th September 2017 Category: Independent Living

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair
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A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she has been forced to resort to crowdfunding to obtain a wheelchair that is suitable for her needs, because of “chronic” government under-funding. Rebecca Boot (pictured) told the party’s annual conference […]

Concerns after patient website is flooded with Whizz-Kidz five-star reviews

By John Pring on 18th February 2016 Category: Independent Living

Concerns after patient website is flooded with Whizz-Kidz five-star reviews
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Industry figures have raised concerns about a healthcare ratings website that has allowed a wheelchair charity to submit a string of glowing reviews about its own services. The Posture and Mobility Group and the National Wheelchair Managers Forum have sent a […]

Tanni says 10,000 signatures could finally transform wheelchair services

By John Pring on 24th July 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tanni says 10,000 signatures could finally transform wheelchair services
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A disabled peer has appealed for more than 10 000 people to put their names to a new campaigning charter, in order to pressure health bosses and politicians into improving England’s much-criticised wheelchair services. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson posed for pictures outside […]

NHS ‘has wasted more than a year’ on latest bid to improve wheelchair services

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Independent Living

NHS ‘has wasted more than a year’ on latest bid to improve wheelchair services
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The NHS has been accused of spending more than a year on its latest bid to improve wheelchair services, while producing nothing but two conferences and a series of working groups. Critics also fear that NHS England’s wheelchair services improvement programme […]

Disabled peer calls on wheelchair-users to demand NHS improvements

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Independent Living

Disabled peer calls on wheelchair-users to demand NHS improvements
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One of Britain’s greatest Paralympic athletes has called on wheelchair-users to back a new push to transform wheelchair services across England. Retired Paralympic legend Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson, now a crossbench peer, said that wheelchair-users had been fighting for more than 30 […]

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