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The Posture & Mobility Group - in collaboration with the British Healthcare Trades Association, National Wheelchair Managers Forum, and the Rehabilitation Engineering Services Management Group - has issued a document today asking "Wheelchair Services: What is needed to make Government policy work?".

 

It has been compiled from letters and comments made in response to documents published by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Paediatric Wheelchair Reform (June 2011) and by Frontier Economics / Whizz-Kidz, and also to the Department of Health plans to extend patient choice by implementing a system of using Any Qualified Provider (AQP).  The document highlights the need for a holistic view and coordination of provision and calls for the Government to broaden its consideration of the needs of people with disabilities beyond the health funds being linked to the "patient", to all funds being with the individual.

 

The Associations who have contributed would welcome the opportunity of working with the Government to help refine and shape the current proposals, developing them into an holistic service reflecting the needs of wheelchair users of all ages.

 

A full copy of the document can be downloaded below.