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Buying wheelchairs privately ‘is a struggle’ and an approved provider list of industry firms as well as potential NHS sanctioning could help protect vulnerable users, argues new report

Providers urged to embrace new system and warned not to approach personal wheelchair budgets like the voucher scheme as expert offers tips on how to make PWBs work

Tends of thousands of wheelchair users in Britain offered more financial help to purchase high-end equipment from the market’s private providers

UK’s top wheelchair and equipment providers strike new partnership to run wheelchair and equipment contract after ‘competitive tender’ last year

CCGs launch survey to get wheelchair users’ input on how providers can make services better for end-users and their carers

Recruitment drive and £2m cash injection initiated as part of improvement plan for Kent and Thanet wheelchair service

Families claim children are being left without important mobility equipment because aids are not being picked up quickly enough when they are no longer needed by patients

Figures reveal that children requiring specialist equipment are still waiting considerably longer than those needing more standard wheelchairs