BHTA stresses need to ensure no eligible workers in healthcare sector are overlooked in vaccine rollout
The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) has welcomed official guidance from NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) prioritising frontline health and social care workers in…
New informative guide for wheelchair users on how to access PWBs
The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) has published a new guide for users about Personal Wheelchair Budgets (PWBs) and how they form part of their…
Guide published for wheelchair users on how to access support as services start back up
The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) has published a new guide, which advises wheelchair users on how to access the support available to them, as…
Medequip secures vital CES contract for Medway area
Medway Council has selected leading community equipment service (CES) provider Medequip to manage CES provision across the area covered by the council, including Rochester, Gillingham,…
Successful community equipment campaign sees hundreds of items returned to county council
Following an appeal to urge people to return unwanted and unneeded community equipment, Devon County Council has seen over 450 items donated to help avoid…
Community equipment providers urge public to return items to aid in national COVID-19 effort
A leading group of Community Equipment Services providers have appealed to people with unneeded equipment to arrange collection in a bid to help support the…
Wheelchair services providers join together to ease pressure off NHS and support users’ needs
The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) has brought together some of the UK’s major wheelchair service providers to ensure that, while the NHS is under…
Leading CES providers come together to support NHS and local authorities
As the UK takes drastic measures to prevent the transmission and spread of COVID-19, leading outsource Community Equipment Services (CES) providers have agreed to work…
“Key workers” across health and social care outlined as schools close
Following the announcement that schools across the UK will close this afternoon but that children of “key workers” and vulnerable children will still attend school,…
23 organisations come together to support call for Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to increase DFG funding
The Home Adaptations Consortium has written a letter to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock MP pledging for support for an…