Gary : I will send you the three booklets we send out with every
chair.. All our self propelling wheelchair users come to clinic for
assessment when they first apply for a chair, not only are they
assessed for a chair but shown how to use it by our therapists.
We have a court yard attached to the clinic with a ramp and a raised
section with a four inch kerb they use for teaching. The EPIOC
users and any self propelling users we think need the training are
taken on our parimiter run.
This takes them out the back gates where the delivery lorries wizz in
and out round the corner onto a narrow pavement, up a gradient to
a pedestrian crossing. This has a 11 second timer. No cars sit
arround at traffic lights for long in Chapel Town (It is our equivalent
of Brixton) so the wheelchair user has to be quick of the mark to get
accross. Then over two more crossings, this is a five way junction,
that brings you to the hospital front gates, (if you have avoided being
caught in the crossfire of one of our regular shootouts between
dealers,) we then go through the big carpark, which slopes down,
avoiding the parked cars, those parking and leaving, into the main
entrance, reception/waiting area with people milling about, though
the corridors and back to the clinic.
If they make it that far without hitting any thing or anyone, or getting
hit them selves, we dont think they have done to bad and will have
encountered most obstacles they will meet.
Michael Hare.
Senior Rhabilitation Engineer.
Wheelchair & Prosthetics Service.
Chapel Allerton Hospital.
Leeds LS7 4SA.
Tel : 0113 3924981
Mobile : 07949 102232
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