NHS Trust launches equipment amnesty and urges patients to return unused mobility aids
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has launched a ‘mobility equipment amnesty’ and is encouraging patients to return their unused crutches and Zimmer frames as the…
Isle of Wight Wheelchair Service to provide patient centred and joined up care from April 2021
Covering the Isle of Wight, Southampton and West Hampshire, a new wheelchair service is set to start in April 2021 and will be provided by…
Personalised wheelchair service launches in Surrey to deliver fully integrated care model
Millbrook Healthcare, which specialises in the provision of community equipment, wheelchair, and assistive technology services to the NHS and local authorities, has recently hosted a…
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…
County council appeals to public to return community equipment amid supply shortage concerns
Devon County Council has urged people with unneeded community equipment to return it to Millbrook Healthcare as soon as possible, stressing that an increase in…
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…
Mobility equipment providers criticised for not collecting loaned out wheelchairs and leaving disabled children stranded
Disabled children are unnecessarily going without vital equipment because local wheelchair providers lose track of the chairs they have loaned and do not pick them…