Burgerman wrote:Bet they didnt say much about how I embarrassed them into it.
Burgerman wrote:The difference is greater freedom in what you buy and why, or what you make...
For eg, you might prefer buy a pair of used chairs from a dealer on ebay for half price or less.
biscuit wrote:at a PWB presentation I went to they gave me a leaflet with the story of you (seemed to be, anyway) on it.
Burgerman wrote:So then, the results of everyones new attitude is?
Knowing the jobsworth risk adverse attitude of officialdom in this country I'm amazed they would agree to a 'patient' using the money to purchase secondhand equipment. The NHS won't even re-loan out returned crutches or other temporarily issued 'disabled' equipment for fear of it structurally failing and ending up with a lawsuit for personal injury claim.
More power to your elbow BM for actually getting them to agree it to.
Found my papers from the presentation last year... can't upload the text on my phone, but one example on the "Wheelchair Personal Health Budget" leaflet I got was "John, aged 51 and from the local area, a skilled engineer, left paraplegic after a motor accident in 1997".... etc.
"John uses his personal health budget" that's what the leaflet says "to pay for mechanical parts so he can build high specification customised power wheelchairs for himself, to help avoid muscle spasms and to maintain his active lifestyle."
Personal wheelchair budgets
In May 2016, Simon Stevens announced that NHS England would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs. This work is being led by NHS England’s Personal Health Budget Team, as part of plans for the wider expansion of personal health budgets nationally.
Since April 2017, all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have been expected to start developing local personal wheelchair budget offers to replace the current wheelchair voucher system.
During 2017, all CCGs should publish the details of their personal wheelchair budget offer as part of their personal health budget local offer, usually available on CCG websites.
During the transitional period, wheelchair vouchers should still be made available.
Scooterman wrote:Burgerman wrote:So then, the results of everyones new attitude is?
Mine is to be pro-active, I sent off a letter last week. But I wish I had some of your gumption
biscuit wrote:scooterman did wheelchair services say no to you in the end, they won't let you have a budget? Or is it that they will not give you an actual chair?
I have an indoor - strictly indoor - "Viennese" and recently bought a used Salsa R2 for the pavement, I wouldn't like to take it off-road as it drives on biscuits. The Vienna chassis and seating with the salsa everything else but fatter wheels, would be a nice chair for me, though I can't see that hybrid working as there is nowhere for the batteries to fit for starters, and I have barely got the energy to lift a screwdriver atm.
Meanwhile the Vienna is on its last legs, and I will then have no chair indoors, so wheelchair services might be helpful then. Meanwhile I do my own thing, as long as it's affordable.
I wouldn't like to take it off-road as it drives on biscuits.
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