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Dept of Health

Answer

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his Answer of 11 December 2002, Official Report, column 401W, on wheelchair services, if he will make a statement on the wheelchair services collaborative programme. [89353] Jacqui Smith: As outlined in the Department's press release of 27 November, forty five centres are now participating in the wheelchair services collaborative, which spans eighteen months. The aim of the collaborative is to improve the overall experience for users and carers, and to work towards minimising delays and maximising efficiency. The services participating are shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Wheelchair Organisation Organisation The Wheelchair Service Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT Bexhill & Rother Wheelchair Service Bexhill & Rother PCT The Wirral Wheelchair Assessment Centre Birkenhead & Wallasey PCT Wheelchair Service Brent PCT Bromley Wheelchair Service Bromley PCT South East Staffs Wheelchair Service Burntwood, Litchfield & Tamworth PCT, SE Staffs PCT Chantry Wheelchair Services Central Suffolk PCT Southern Derbyshire Wheelchair Service Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire PCT Wheelchair Services Doncaster East PCT South Durham Wheelchair Service Durham and Chester Le-Street PCT Enfield Wheelchair Service Enfield PCT The Wheelchair Centre Hambleton and Richmondshire pct Haringey Wheelchair Service Haringey Teaching PCT Hillingdon Wheelchair Service Hillingdon PCT Occupational Therapy & Wheelchair Services Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust The Wheelchair Service King's Lynn and Wisebech Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds Wheelchair Service Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust North Essex Wheelchair services Maldon and South Chelmsford PCT Wheelchair Services Milton Keynes PCT Disablement Services Centre North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust North Cumbria Wheelchair Service North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Wheelchair Centre North Lincolnshire Primary Care NHS Trust NW Surrey Wheelchair Service North Surrey PCT Harrow Wheelchair Service North West London Hospitals NHS Trust Occupational Therapy and Wheelchair Services Northamptonshire Heartlands PLC Oxford Centre for Enablement Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust Wheelchair Assessment Centre, Thameside General Hospital Oldham PCT/Thameside and Glossop Wheelchair Service & Community Equipment Service Redditch and Bromsgrove NHS PCT Exeter Mobility Centre Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Wheelchair Service Sedgefield PCT Birmingham Wheelchair Service South Birmingham PCT Sussex Rehabilitation Centre South Downs NHS Trust South Tyneside (Healthcare NHS Trust) Wheelchair Services South Tyneside PCT South Warwickshire PCT South Warwickshire PCT Wheelchair Services Sussex Downs and Weald PCT Shropshire Wheelchair Service Telford and Wrekin NHS PCT Liverpool Wheelchair Service The Royal Liverpool and NHS Broadgreen University Hospitals Tower Hamlets Wheelchair Service Tower Hamlets NHS PCT Wheelchair Service at the Rehabilitation Centre United Lincoln Hospitals NHS Trust Leicestershire Wheelchair Service University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust Wheelchair Services Walsall PCT Wheelchair Service Wandsworth NHS PCT West Dorset Wheelchair Service West Dorset PCT The Wheelchair Service West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust (Medway PCT, Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley PCT) _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

89353; 397 c212-4W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Disability aids Wheelchairs Wheelchair services collaborative programme

Link

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