difficulty accessing a personal wheelchair account

We are wondering if anyone else has had this experience and what could be done to resolve the situation.
It seems to us that if NHS England can announce a policy and a CCG can fail to implement it,shows a fundamental flaw in the NHS England organisation
Here's hoping to hear something helpful from this community
rayrey
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Hi @rayrey
Welcome to the community. I am sorry to hear you've been having difficulties with getting a personal wheelchair account.
Our Occupational Therapist @Jean_OT or the members in the discussions may be able to offer some support.
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Hi @Rayrey
There seems to be both limited information and a patchy geographical picture of the introduction of personal budgets for wheelchairs.
As far as I'm aware during 2017/18, all CCGs were expected to publish the plans for their personal wheelchair budget offer, as part of their personal health budget local offer, usually I would expect to find such documents available on the CCG website. I have searched the Hillingdon CCG website looking for information specific to their plans for the provision of wheelchair budgets without success https://www.hillingdonccg.nhs.uk/news-and-publications . I suggest that you formally contact your CCG again and ask for a copy of their plan, or at least a date of when it will be available.
If they can't or won't provide you with the plan you might want to consider the possibility of making a formal complaint: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-complain-to-the-nhs/ escalating the matter as necessary. You might also want to raise the matter with Hillingdon Healthwatch: https://healthwatchhillingdon.org.uk/
The Patient's Association is another organisation which might be able to advise you: https://www.patients-association.org.uk/
For people wanting to do some background reading on this is the most informative, plain english, website I have found isr https://www.bathandnortheastsomersetccg.nhs.uk/documents/policies-and-governance/personal-wheelchair-budgets-frequently-asked-questions
Best Wishes
Jean
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