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Dept of Health

Answer

Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what information the Wheelchair Services Collaborative holds on waiting times for assessment and delivery of wheelchairs; [194035] (2) which wheelchair services participate in the Wheelchair Services Collaborative; [194036] (3) what waiting times apply to the North Staffordshire Wheelchair Service; and if he will make a statement. [194037] Dr. Ladyman: Figures on waiting times for people requiring wheelchairs are not collected centrally. The information may be available from the 151 national health service wheelchair services, which actually arrange for the provision of wheelchairs in England. 45 centres participated in the wheelchair services collaborative, which ran until June 2004. The services that participated were: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Wheelchair service Organisation Bexhill and Rother Wheelchair Service Bexhill and Rother Primary Care Trust (PCT) The Wirral Wheelchair Assessment Centre Birkenhead and Wallasey PCT Wheelchair Service Brent PCT Bromley Wheelchair Service Bromley PCT South East Staffordshire Wheelchair Service Burntwood, Litchfield and Tamworth PCT, South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust 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 Haringey Wheelchair Service Haringey Teaching PCT Hillingdon Wheelchair Service Hillingdon PCT Occupational Therapy and 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, Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust Wheelchair Services Milton Keynes PCT Disablement Services Centre North Bristol NHS Trust North Cumbria Wheelchair Service North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Wheelchair Centre North Lincolnshire Primary Care NHS Trust North West Surrey Wheelchair Service North Surrey PCT Harrow Wheelchair Service North West London Hospitals NHS Trust Occupational Therapy and Wheelchair Services Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT Oxford Centre for Enablement Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust Wheelchair Assessment Centre, Thameside General Hospital Oldham PCT/Thameside and Glossop Wheelchair Service and Community Equipment Service Redditch and Bromsgrove NHS PCT Exeter Mobility Centre Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust 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 North 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

426 c148-50W; 194035;194036;194037

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Disability aids Primary care trusts Waiting lists Wheelchairs Staffordshire Wheelchair services collaborative programme

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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