No longer entitled to NHS wheelchair as in a care home?

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wolfehouse said:

Have a look at these guidelines.  

https://www.rcot.co.uk/file/3680/download?token=d2LfcxuU

As far as I am aware the nhs should be providing her equipment needs as a loan until the nursing home purchases (in a t8mely manner).  Not sure about wheelchairs but that is how it works for beds and chairs in my experience.

This is brilliant thanks so much, I am in the process of making a formal complaint to the CCG as they left my mum with nothing and I can quote some of this document. The OT came to assess but said because she could be safely hoisted from her bed to her chair ( which are a metre apart) then she is not entitled to a wheelchair! So the expectation is she should sit in her room for the rest of her life. She could have another 20 years yet! 

The care home have provided a standard wheelchair but her foot drags on the floor as she needs a specialist footplate and she leans to one side as she needs a moulded back rest therefore as this document says this is not then a standard piece of equipment that can be used by anyone. 

Ironically she is now being assessed for a power chair and if she can use one this will be funded for her at a far greater expense to the NHS. This will only be an indoor chair though and so any future medical appointments she has to attend at hospital will now involve ambulance transport, also at great expense to the NHS. We have always used bus transport ourselves in the past.  

It would have been far more cost effective to replace her wheelchair!