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"Wheelchair maintainence"

About: WestMARC (Forth Valley) / Adult Wheelchair Clinic

(as a parent/guardian),

We have had several people out over the past few weeks for our daughters wheelchair. It was getting stiff especially on the left hand side and harder to put up and down. It turned out the bracket was buckled on the seat as I suspected and one of the front castors needed replacing. The first person that came out wasn’t our usual guy. They were rather rude and condescending insinuating that the bracket being buckled was my imagination. However when our normal guy Allen came out he agreed and proved how buckled the bracket was also noting the previous person had ordered the wrong castor for her chair and so he couldn’t repair it and would come back out. The following day we actually had westmarc who needed to change her brackets to a bigger size anyway. Allen has just been out again to change her castors yet again he was friendly chatty and very helpful. Thank you Allen hope to see you again: )

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Response from Heather Richardson, Interim General Manager, Emergency & Acute Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde 5 years ago
Heather Richardson
Interim General Manager, Emergency & Acute Medicine,
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Submitted on 20/11/2018 at 17:04
Published on Care Opinion on 21/11/2018 at 14:55


Dear Zephyrina,

Thank you very much for posting your feedback on Care Opinion.

Firstly I would like to thank you, on Allens behalf, regarding the glowing report that you have given him on his work, his professionalism and his disposition.

Secondly please accept my apologies that you have had to advise us of your first experience during this episode. I would be really interested to hear more about what took place to get a better picture of anything that we can learn for the future.

If you would like me to contact to discuss this with me in more detail feel free to contact me on 0141 201 2392 or by email on westmarc@ggc.scot.nhs.uk.

Kind regards

Heather McIntosh

Operational Service manager

WestMARC

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