*Wheelchair Steering Group Meeting Feedback -20th September*
One of our parent reps Terri, represented Parent Carers Together at the above meeting on Monday this week.
The meeting was attended by representatives from:
-Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
-Dorset Council
-Dorset Health Care NHS
OT Children's Therapy Team - BCP
-Parent Carers Together
-CHAD Team (Child Health and Disability)
-CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
-Wheelchair Service
The purpose of these meetings is to establish why wheelchairs are only given to those with mobility issues or with comorbid diagnoses. Those with either a learning or behavioural need aren't meeting the criteria and signposting to relevant organisations is inadequate. Hoping to create a smaller group to progress forwards with supporting those who don't meet the criteria for a wheelchair/buggy. If it's a safety need (not behavioural) then it's not covered under health but indeed as access to the community. If it's behavioural then more support needs to be given, other areas have a support team specific for this.
Discussed the feedback from the recent wheelchair/buggy survey (which Parent Carers Together shared with our members)- only 44 responses received. 21 met the criteria out of the 44. 13 responses from Dorset families and 8 responses from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole families.
There were 8 that didn't meet the criteria who then self-funded and only 5 who continued to regularly have their chairs/buggies serviced.
There were 15 that needed extra assistance, with 9 being supported by ID CAMHS, 8 by SWIFTS and 2 from behavioural support.
Meetings have been scheduled for around every 6 weeks.
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