Wheelchair users to get £16m boost to services
WHEELCHAIR users are set to benefit from a £16 million plan to modernise services, the Scottish Government said yesterday.
The money will be used over three years to fund an action plan to provide wheelchair services closer to people's homes.
Improvements are set to include a fleet of new standard wheelchairs, using the latest lightweight mobile technology, in NHS rehabilitation centres across the country, and local clinics providing a flexible and faster service for clinical assessments.
Every NHS board will have a wheelchair and carer group to take part in the planning and delivery of wheelchair services, including choosing models of wheelchairs for the NHS.
Shona Robison, the public health minister, said the aim was to ensure services were "delivered in the right way, at the right time, for people who use wheelchairs and their carers".
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