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I decided I really should update my blog with what has been happening recently, I apologise for not updating it sooner, I have no excuse, I’m just lazy when it comes to these things. The biggest update is that I have finally changed care agencies, I have had issues with my agency for years . . . → Read More: Updates – CHC, Wheelchair, DFG & Change of Care Agency I had a visit last week from the NHS regarding the PHB pilot, it was really just a baseline assessment, they will come back again in six months to see if anything has changed, hopefully this means I will be getting my budget soon. The man from the NHS filled out a pretty standard . . . → Read More: Gloucestershire Personal Health Budget Pilot – Post 2 I received this letter in June regarding my email correspondence with Wheelchair Services and Social Services, lets be clear I did not excessively email or phone them, probably 3 or 4 phone calls and 33 emails (a lot of which were confirming I had received an email) in about 105 days. As I was . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – Request for me to sign agreement on communication There is currently a move to push Personal Health Budgets by the government to give patients/service users more control see this NHS page. The University of Kent, University of York, Imperial College, London and the London school of economics have joined up for a Government funded research project to assess how well PHB’s work for . . . → Read More: Gloucestershire Personal Health Budget Pilot – Post 1 As I mentioned, I had sent Ms.Bush an email with a few questions about the power chair they want me to have, as usual the reply (when I finally got it) wasn’t particularly helpful. My first question was about speed, I think that a 6 mp/h chair is safer than a 4 mp/h one . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – email reply regarding speed etc. This blog may be a bit quiet while I go through the complaints process with PALS, I will continue to update my general postings regarding Wheelchair Services but will not comment on the complaints process while it is ongoing. I had another meeting with wheelchair services on Thursday, this time I invited my neuromuscular advisor along too, mainly so she could see how meetings like this work and how wheelchair services assess someone. They brought in an Invacare TDX SP for me to sit in so they could take measurements and work out . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – Another meeting I have made a few enquiries regarding Wheelchair Services adapting private chairs, all have hit a brick wall, the last person I asked was the secretary to the chief executive of NHS Gloucestershire, I can’t go much higher although I will try, below is the letter of reply regarding this -
Not . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – No adaptations to private chairs Wheelchair Services have contacted me again to arrange another visit in roughly two weeks time, they are going to bring an Invacare TDX SP and a rep from Invacare with them, while this chair isn’t perfect it’s a big step up from the Spectra they had originally decided on. The lesson here is NEVER . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – Update 3 The meeting with wheelchair services went pretty well, far better than I had expected, the O.T. had a totally different attitude, not sure if it was due to my emails or not, and the rehab engineer (who I’ve known for ages) was great, they will probably end up offering me a decent chair, maybe . . . → Read More: Wheelchair Services – Update 2 |
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