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Chair repairs

Postby steves1977uk » 20 Feb 2019, 16:36

Two days ago my right footplate locking bracket broke off, two days later it's fixed with a quick e-mail to my ex-RAF service guy who welded it back on this morning, job done! :dance :hammer

Now if I was relying on WCS, it would've been a couple of weeks before they'd repair it and probably would've replaced the entire side frame! You can see why WCS waste millions of £'s when a simple repair job is all that's needed. :argument It always pays to have a handyman with the skills for doing jobs like this on our chairs as it's far quicker and simpler in the long run.

I keep spares of everything so I'm never stuck.

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Re: Chair repairs

Postby Burgerman » 20 Feb 2019, 18:19

Yes. As well as cheaper its a TIME thing. Thats more important than any amount of added cost, or inconvinience.
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Re: Chair repairs

Postby steves1977uk » 20 Feb 2019, 18:38

Agree with that BM, time is essential and mobility. WCS wastes time by having coffee meetings every 5 mins! :lol: :cussing :fencing

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Re: Chair repairs

Postby Burgerman » 20 Feb 2019, 20:00

Its socialist medicine. Not driven by efficiency, profit, but by employing as many as poss to do as little as possible for more money than they are worth, and nobody cares if the outcome is achieved, or correct. They all get paid for meetings, coffee, holidays, and 30 layers of beurocracy and paper pushing anyway.
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Re: Chair repairs

Postby Scooterman » 21 Feb 2019, 01:07

I was with WCS for 8 years, but similar to what's already been said, I got fed up with the beaurcracy and them keep on coming round my house, so gave up on them

I would rather look for cheap 'used' on eBay then it's mine to with as I please. But I do appreciate that option may not be available to everyone due to disability or financial reasons.

It the same for me with social services. I once had THREE visits by an OT over a horrible cheap £15 plastic clamp-on loo seat raiser. The first visit to assess me, the second to assess me using it (fully clothed needless to say), the third a follow up to see how I was getting on with it. She even wanted to arrange for someone to fit it, but I insisted I could fit it myself.

After nearly falling a couple of times while using a transfer board, because the damn plastic seat raiser wouldn't grip the toilet bowl tight enough. I slung it in the wheelie bin and bought for about 35 quid a far superior disinfectant impregnated latex foam style one that had no clamps and gripped the bowl like a limpet though pure friction. It was German say no more...
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Re: Chair repairs

Postby steves1977uk » 21 Feb 2019, 01:42

Been through all that as well SM, with SS & OTs. Another recent example is with slings, needed a new one for bathing, so OT & sling "expert" came to assess and try different ones. But the best the "expert" could come up with is some thin and uncomfortable sling which is absolutely no good for washing my bits'n'bobs :oops: as there's a pouch that covers them! czy And the spare one I was given which was supposed to be "new" new had a manufacturing date of 2011, so it was "new" old stock. :cussing

So I'm going to buy my own sling which will have padding and no stupid pouch! :fencing The OT joked she would make one herself if they couldn't come up with anything.

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Re: Chair repairs

Postby Burgerman » 21 Feb 2019, 02:21

This is socialism 101.
Their job is not to help sort out the problem, in an efficient manner. Its to follow orders from the system, push responsibility for all types of risk, esp theirs to the limit. They are not trying to help you, they are following a procedure in their own time as designed.

So every enquiry must be assessed. Not you, the actual enquiry. Does it need to come from a medical professional. How many forms and details will they need. Whats is the time limit they are allowed to work to. etc etc. Thats half a dozen people and forms, and a meeting before they write a letter about what they will do.

Eventually if they can see no way to exclude you, they will send a form for you to return to them to assess in another meeting. Months may go by, and when you call up the person you need to talk to will be either on holiday, or in a meeting and will call you back. Which never happens. And on and on.
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Re: Chair repairs

Postby foghornleghorn » 21 Feb 2019, 11:05

steves1977uk wrote:if I was relying on WCS, it would've been a couple of weeks before they'd repair it

I had the WCS repairers tell me they would definitely need to take a chair to their workshop to change a backrest, and that it might be gone for over a week. It was 4 allen bolts :roll:

I feel sorry for anyone who has to rely on WCS and can't get things done themselves.
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Re: Chair repairs

Postby iainsherriff » 21 Feb 2019, 11:13

steves1977uk wrote: The OT joked she would make one herself if they couldn't come up with anything.
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I made the one Matt uses now, same as you, OT brought two out but they are more suitable for moving sheep carcasses than a person :thumbdown:
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