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Car travel with oxygen

I live in Tameside. I am 85 years old man and have COPD and other medical conditions. I go to a day care centre three times a week using social services transport. However, my medical condition has deteriorated and I now need to use a wheelchair and oxygen. I have been told by Transport I need a crash tested wheelchair and a cage for my oxygen tank when I am transported to the day care centre. But Transport are not forthcoming in what I exactly need to buy to cover their health and safety procedure. Surely there must be other people who are in a similar situation. It is so frustrating.
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I'll have a search and see what I can find on this. @Debbie_Scope do you know anythng about this?
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To safely transport your oxygen cylinders in your vehicle please follow this advice:
I also found this, so you may want to contact the provider near you?
There are four companies in England that provide home oxygen services for the NHS. Each covers a certain geographical area.
Your oxygen treatment clinic will organise your oxygen supply from one of the suppliers below:
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If they need any more cylinders to take with them, Air Liquide supply big green boxes to carry them in.
It does seem very odd that they havent dealt with this situation before! I hope you get some answers asap! Let us know how you get on.
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Hi Bix
Sorry I'm joining this conversation late but I'm pleased to see that you have already resolved the issue. However, it is disappointing that you had to sort it yourself rather than the transport service giving you good information in the first place.
As other people are likely to refer to this conversation in future I thought I'd just add an additional link to a page of advice that the Community Transport Association UK made available to their member organisations. It doesn't answer your specific query but is good general advice for organisations that might be unsure of their role and responsibilities when they are transporting passengers who use oxygen:
http://www.ctauk.org/UserFiles/Documents/AdviceInformation/ProblemSolvers/2014-Winter-Oxygen-Cylinders.pdf
Best Wishes
Jean
Jean Merrilees BSc MRCOT
You can read more of my posts at: https://community.scope.org.uk/categories/ask-an-occupational-therapist