ballkeeper wrote:3 years now still waiting for the ws to come for a vist
They have forgot about you.
You need to be calling them for updates and make a FORMAL complaint against your local OT department. You have been waiting too long.
"There is a target in place for patients to be assessment and wheelchairs to be delivered to them within 18 weeks of a referral, but thousands of patients across England were forced to wait for longer. "
They will make it hard to complain. In your complaint tell them how it has effected you and ask them why you have been forced to wait so long.
https://elht.nhs.uk/about-us/comments-concerns-and-compliments
You must be proactive.
Get in contact with your MP https://members.parliament.uk/member/4833/contact
Use https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/east_lancashire_hospitals_nhs_trust to make freedom of information requests.
Like how many they employ in WS, the average waiting time for assessment, the average wait for a powerchair after assessment, their budget.......